Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400-metre individual medley at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	29 July 2001
Competitors	31
Winning time	4 minutes 13.15 seconds
Medalists
Alessio Boggiatto    Italy   Erik Vendt    United States   Thomas Wilkens    United States
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The men's 400-metre individual medley event at the 2001 World Aquatic Championships took place 29 July. Both the heats and final were held on 29 July.^[1][2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record	Tom Dolan (USA)	4:11.76	Sydney, Australia	17 September 2000
Championship record	Tom Dolan (USA)	4:12.30	Rome, Italy	6 September 1994

Results

Heats

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Thomas Wilkens	United States	4:16.13	Q
2	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	4:17.86	Q
3	Erik Vendt	United States	4:18.09	Q
4	Jiro Miki	Japan	4:18.48	Q
5	Susumu Tabuchi	Japan	4:18.90	Q
6	Brian Johns	Canada	4:19.25	Q
7	Justin Norris	Australia	4:19.34	Q
8	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:20.88	Q
9	Yves Platel	Switzerland	4:21.11
10	Dean Kent	New Zealand	4:22.18
11	Micky Halika	Israel	4:22.66
12	Grant McGregor	Australia	4:22.67
13	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	4:22.74
14	Vasileios Demetis	Greece	4:24.01
15	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	4:24.55
16	Marko Milenkovič	Slovenia	4:25.32
17	Xie Xufeng	China	4:26.32
18	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	4:30.22
19	Brenton Cabello	Spain	4:31.58
20	Javier Díaz	Mexico	4:34.17
21	Margus Saia	Estonia	4:36.73
22	Georgi Palazov	Bulgaria	4:36.91
23	Wu Nien-Pin	Chinese Taipei	4:39.31
24	Aleksandar Miladinovski	North Macedonia	4:40.87
25	Benjamin Gan	Singapore	4:41.90
26	Diego Urreta	Mexico	4:42.26
27	Wan Azlan	Malaysia	4:43.34
28	Hsu Kuo-Tung	Chinese Taipei	4:43.49
29	Seung Gin Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	5:06.64
30	Dean Palacios	Northern Mariana Islands	5:12.38
31	Mohammad Nazeri	Iran	5:18.65
–	George Gleason	United States Virgin Islands	DNS
–	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	DNS
–	Örn Arnarson	Iceland	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	4:13.15
	Erik Vendt	United States	4:15.36
	Thomas Wilkens	United States	4:15.94
4	Susumu Tabuchi	Japan	4:18.05
5	Justin Norris	Australia	4:18.56
6	Brian Johns	Canada	4:19.75
7	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:19.80
8	Jiro Miki	Japan	4:23.11

Key: WR = World record

References