Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

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

Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay
at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships
Winning time3:14.10
Medalists
 Michael Klim
Ashley Callus
Todd Pearson
Ian Thorpe		   Australia
 Mark Veens
Johan Kenkhuis
Klaas-Erik Zwering
Pieter van den Hoogenband		   Netherlands
 Stefan Herbst
Torsten Spanneberg
Lars Conrad
Sven Lodziewski		   Germany
2001 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Synchronised
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Open water swimming
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
25 kmmenwomen
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
Synchronised swimming
Solowomen
Duetwomen
Teamwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen

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.[1][2]

Results

Final

 Australia (Michael Klim, Ashley Callus, Todd Pearson, Ian Thorpe) 3:14.10

 Netherlands (Mark Veens, Johan Kenkhuis, Klaas-Erik Zwering, Pieter van den Hoogenband) 3:14.56 European Record

 Germany (Stefan Herbst, Torsten Spanneberg, Lars Conrad, Sven Lodziewski) 3:17.52

4.  Sweden 3:18.00

5.  Italy 3:19.37

6.  Russia 3:21.63

DQ  United States 3:15.29 Disqualified for Nate Dusing replacing Gregory Busse without announcing the change at least one hour before the competition.

DQ  Brazil

References
  1. Lord, Craig with Takahisa Ide (2001) Thorpe Sets WR, Wins Two Gold on First Day of Competition at World Champs, Swimming World Magazine, 22 July Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed June 2013)
  2. "Staff and Wire Reports (2001) Thorpe Starts Fast With World Record". Los Angeles Times. 23 July 2001. Retrieved June 2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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