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The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place in Marine Messe in Fukuoka, Japan in 22 July 2001.[1][2]

Prior to this meet, the United States have never lost this race since the inception of the World Championships in 1973. The final of the relay was notable for Ian Thorpe's swimming the closing leg for Australia with his fastest-ever relay split of 47.87 s, for the 47.02 seconds final leg, the fastest relay leg in history by Pieter van den Hoogenband and for the disqualification after the race of the American team.[3][4]

Records

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

World Record Australia Australia (AUS)
Michael Klim (48.18)
Chris Fydler (48.48)
Ashley Callus (48.71)
Ian Thorpe (48.30)
3:13.67 Sydney, Australia 16 September 2000
Championship Record United States United States (USA)
Scott Tucker (49.80)
Neil Walker (48.75)
Jon Olsen (49.48)
Gary Hall, Jr. (48.66)
3:16.69 Perth, Australia 15 January 1998

The following record was established during the competition:

Date Round Nation Time Record
22 July Final  Australia
Michael Klim (49.12)
Ashley Callus (48.31)
Todd Pearson (48.80)
Ian Thorpe (47.87)
3:14.10 CR

Results

Heats

Place Heat Lane Nation Swimmers (split) Time Notes
1 2 4  United States Neil Walker (49.73)
Scott Tucker (48.39)
Gregory Busse (49.38)
Daniel Jones (49.61)
3:17.11 Q
2 3 4  Australia Michael Klim (48.90)
David Jenkins (49.93)
Adam Pine (49.42)
Todd Pearson (49.02)
3:17.27 Q
3 2 6  Netherlands Mark Veens (49.90)
Ewout Holst (49.89)
Klaas-Erik Zwering (49.23)
Johan Kenkhuis (49.46)
3:18.48 Q
4 3 5  Germany Lars Conrad (50.07)
Sven Lodziewski (49.84)
Stefan Herbst (49.57)
Torsten Spanneberg (49.12)
3:18.60 Q
5 3 3  Sweden Erik Dorch (51.28)
Stefan Nystrand (49.32)
Lars Frölander (48.67)
Eric la Fleur (49.93)
3:19.20 Q
6 2 5  Italy Klaus Lanzarini (50.72)
Andrea Beccari (50.05)
Matteo Pelliciari (49.70)
Simone Cercato (49.56)
3:20.03 Q
7 1 4  Brazil Edvaldo Valério (50.52)
Carlos Jayme (50.20)
Rodrigo Castro (50.05)
Gustavo Borges (50.42)
3:21.19 Q
8 1 5  Russia Maxim Korchunov (50.81)
Igor Marchenko (50.76)
Dmitri Talepov (50.36)
Dmitry Chernyshov (49.77)
3:21.70 Q
9 2 3  Japan Yoshihiro Okumura (50.89)
Daisuke Hosokawa (50.09)
Shunsuke Ito (50.35)
Hideaki Hara (50.68)
3:22.01
10 1 3  Switzerland Christoph Bühler (51.93)
Karel Novy (49.32)
Philipp Gilgen (51.48)
Lorenz Liechti (51.37)
3:24.10
11 3 2  Singapore Fergus Kuek (53.65)
Ernest Teo (52.68)
Gary Tan (52.09)
Mark Chay (52.36)
3:30.78
12 3 6  Mexico Alejandro Siqueiros (51.94)
Cesar Uribe (54.04)
Juan José Veloz (53.01)
Jacob Fraire (53.02)
3:32.01
13 1 6  Malaysia Elvin Chia (52.76)
Dieung Manggang (54.57)
Yu Lung Lubrey Lim (55.98)
Wan Azlan (55.78)
3:39.09
14 2 2  Chinese Taipei Wu Nien-Pin (53.13)
Jiang Bing-Ru (54.87)
Yang Shang-Hsuan (56.82)
Chen Jui-Chen (57.58)
3:42.40
15 1 2  Uzbekistan Ravil Nachaev (52.52)
Sergey Voytsekhovich (58.31)
Oleg Lyashko (56.96)
Aleksey Bortnikov (56.51)
3:44.30
16 3 7  Macau Chon Kit Alias Joao Tang (55.58)
Wing Cheung Victor Wong (58.21)
Chi Lon Lei (57.87)
Keng Ip Lou (57.71)
3:49.37
17 2 7  Guam Daniel Kang (58.67)
Kin Duenas (59.43)
Mark Unpingco (59.32)
William Kang (58.11)
3:55.53

Final

Place Lane Nation Swimmers (split) Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5  Australia Michael Klim (49.12)
Ashley Callus (48.31)
Todd Pearson (48.80)
Ian Thorpe (47.87)
3:14.10 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3  Netherlands Mark Veens (49.80)
Johan Kenkhuis (48.56)
Klaas-Erik Zwering (49.18)
Pieter van den Hoogenband (47.02)
3:14.56 ER
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6  Germany Stefan Herbst (50.54)
Torsten Spanneberg (48.86)
Lars Conrad (49.08)
Sven Lodziewski (49.04)
3:17.52
4 2  Sweden Mattias Ohlin (50.70)
Lars Frölander (48.31)
Stefan Nystrand (48.79)
Eric la Fleur (50.20)
3:18.00
5 7  Italy Lorenzo Vismara (50.49)
Matteo Pelliciari (49.54)
Klaus Lanzarini (50.06)
Simone Cercato (49.28)
3:19.37
6 8  Russia Maxim Korchunov (50.92)
Leonid Khokhlov (50.38)
Dmitri Talepov (50.16)
Dmitry Chernyshov (50.17)
3:21.63
1  Brazil Gustavo Borges
Edvaldo Valério
Rodrigo Castro
Carlos Jayme
DSQ
4  United States Scott Tucker
Anthony Ervin
Gregory Busse
Jason Lezak
DSQ

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