| Swimming events at the 2000 Summer Olympics |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freestyle | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | women | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| Backstroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Breaststroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Butterfly | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Individual medley | ||||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| Freestyle relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
| 4×200 m | men | women | ||
| Medley relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
The final of the Men's 4×100 metres Freestyle Relay event at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney, Australia, on September 16, 2000.
Contents |
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|
Final Ian Thorpe Ashley Callus Chris Fydler Michael Klim Heat Todd Pearson Adam Pine |
Final Neil Walker Anthony Ervin Gary Hall, Jr. Jason Lezak Heat Scott Tucker Josh Davis |
Final Edvaldo Valério Gustavo Borges Carlos Jayme Fernando Scherer |
| RANK | FINAL | TIME |
|---|---|---|
| Australia Michael Klim Chris Fydler Ashley Callus Ian Thorpe |
3:13.67 WR 48.18 WR 48.48 48.71 48.30 |
|
| United States Anthony Ervin Neil Walker Jason Lezak Gary Hall, Jr. |
3:13.86 48.89 48.31 48.42 48.24 |
|
| Brazil Fernando Scherer Gustavo Borges Carlos Jayme Edvaldo Valério |
3:17.40 49.79 48.61 49.88 49.12 |
|
| 4. | Germany Torsten Spanneberg Christian Tröger Stephan Kunzelmann Stefan Herbst |
3:17.77 49.63 49.06 50.20 48.88 |
| 5. | Italy Lorenzo Vismara Klaus Lanzarini Massimiliano Rosolino Simone Cercato |
3:17.85 49.23 49.46 49.70 49.46 |
| 6. | Sweden Stefan Nystrand Lars Frölander Mattias Ohlin Johan Nyström |
3:19.60 50.06 48.12 49.99 51.43 |
| 7. | France Frédérick Bousquet Romain Barnier Hugo Viart Nicolas Kintz |
3:21.00 50.88 49.68 49.79 50.65 |
| — | Russia Andrey Kapralov Denis Pimankov Alexander Popov Dmitry Chernyshov |
DSQ 50.44 — — — |
The 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, was an event which the United States had never lost at Olympic level. After Klim had broken the individual world record, Fydler and Callus clung onto the arm-length lead, with Thorpe ready to duel with Gary Hall, Jr. Thorpe timed his dive much better than Hall, and surfaced a body length ahead of the silver medalist in the 100 m from the Atlanta Olympics. Hall opened a half-body-length lead in the first lap, but Thorpe used his finishing kick in the last 40 m to claim victory by just 0.17 s and set a new world record.[1][2] It sparked wild celebrations amongst the partisan crowd, and evoked an uncharacteristic celebration from Thorpe. Whereas he would usually stare calmly at the scoreboard and slowly pump his fists, he immediately jumped out of the pool, screaming and hugging his ecstatic teammates. He even went as far as playing air guitar to mock Hall's pre-race claim that the Americans would "smash" the Australians like guitars. Talbot described the race as the "greatest moment" of his coaching career, but felt that the emotional euphoria negatively affected the subsequent performance of his team.[3][4]
| RANK | HEAT 1 | TIME |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Germany Lars Conrad Torsten Spanneberg Stephan Kunzelmann Stefan Herbst |
3:18.70 50.60 49.41 49.63 49.06 |
| 2. | Italy Lorenzo Vismara Mauro Gallo Klaus Lanzarini Simone Cercato |
3:18.86 49.91 49.92 49.60 49.43 |
| 3. | Belarus Igor Koleda Pavel Lagun Dmitry Kalinovsky Oleg Rykhlevich |
3:20.85 49.95 49.80 51.16 49.94 |
| 4. | Spain Jorge Luis Ulibarri Eduardo Lorente Juan Benavides Javier Botello |
3:22.76 50.89 50.52 50.67 50.68 |
| 5. | Croatia Duje Draganja Marijan Kanjer Ivan Mladina Alen Lončar |
3:24.96 50.45 51.37 50.91 52.23 |
| – | Uzbekistan Oleg Pukhnaty Oleg Tsvetkovsky Ravil Nachayev Pyotr Vasilyev |
DSQ 52.42 — — — |
| – | Netherlands Mark Veens Dennis Rijnbeek Ewout Holst Johan Kenkhuis |
DSQ 49.38 — — — |
| RANK | HEAT 2 | TIME |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Australia Chris Fydler Todd Pearson Adam Pine Ashley Callus |
3:17.37 49.72 49.32 49.25 49.08 |
| 2. | Russia Denis Pimankov Leonid Khokhlov Andrey Kapralov Alexander Popov |
3:19.70 49.93 51.02 49.03 49.72 |
| 3. | Sweden Stefan Nystrand Johan Wallberg Lars Frölander Mattias Ohlin |
3:19.80 50.42 50.30 48.79 50.29 |
| 4. | France Romain Barnier Frédérick Bousquet Hugo Viart Nicolas Kintz |
3:20.19 50.05 49.41 50.35 50.38 |
| 5. | South Africa Roland Schoeman Brendon Dedekind Nicholas Folker Terence Parkin |
3:21.28 50.19 50.27 49.57 51.25 |
| 6. | Lithuania Arūnas Savickas Minvydas Packevicius Saulius Binevičius Rolandas Gimbutis |
3:23.68 52.11 50.53 50.81 50.23 |
| 7. | Venezuela Carlos Santander Oswaldo Quevedo Francisco Páez Francisco Sánchez |
3:24.64 51.28 51.36 50.97 51.03 |
| 8. | Kyrgyzstan Sergey Ashihmin Konstantin Ushkov Dmitri Kuzmin Alexei Pavlov |
3:25.03 51.65 50.04 50.61 52.73 |
| RANK | HEAT 3 | TIME |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | United States Scott Tucker Anthony Ervin Jason Lezak Josh Davis |
3:15.43 49.80 48.43 48.46 48.74 |
| 2. | Brazil Fernando Scherer Edvaldo Valério Carlos Jayme Gustavo Borges |
3:19.29 50.16 49.26 50.10 49.77 |
| 3. | Great Britain Paul Belk Sion Brinn Anthony Howard Mark Stevens |
3:20.45 50.59 49.52 50.18 50.16 |
| 4. | Ukraine Vyacheslav Shyrshov Rostyslav Svanidze Artem Goncharenko Pavel Khnykin |
3:21.48 49.77 51.69 49.98 50.04 |
| 5. | Canada Craig Hutchison Robbie Taylor Rick Say Yannick Lupien |
3:21.98 50.40 50.89 50.97 49.72 |
| 6. | Israel Alexei Manziula Eithan Urbach Oren Azrad Yoav Bruck |
3:22.06 51.14 49.68 50.68 50.56 |
| 7. | Denmark Dennis Jensen Henrik Steen Andersen Jeppe Nielsen Jacob Carstensen |
3:24.78 51.69 51.45 51.18 50.46 |
| 8. | Kazakhstan Igor Sitnikov Andrey Kvasov Pavel Sidorov Sergey Borisenko |
3:28.90 52.56 52.25 52.14 51.95 |