The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the

2001 World Aquatics Championships right The 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001. The opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the swimming and synchronised swimming events, ...

took place in Marine Messe in

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, Japan in July 2001. Prior to this meet, the United States have never lost this race since the inception of the

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

in 1973. The final of the relay was notable for

Ian Thorpe Ian James Thorpe, (born 13 October 1982) is an Australian retired swimmer who specialised in freestyle, but also competed in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian along wit ...

'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 Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband (; born 14 March 1978) is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder. Early life Born in Maastricht, Limburg, he is the son of Cees-Rein van den Hoogenban ...

and for the disqualification after the race of the American team.

Results

Final

(

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, Ashley Callus,

Todd Pearson Todd Robert Pearson (born 25 November 1977) is an Australian swimming champion, who was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. He started swimming on the advice of a doctor treating his asthma. Pearson was vice captain of Hale School in 1994 wh ...

) 3:14.10 (

Mark Veens Mark Hermanus Maria Veens (born 26 June 1978 in Venray, Limburg) is a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at three consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia as a member of the 4×10 ...

, Johan Kenkhuis, Klaas-Erik Zwering,

) 3:14.56 European Record ( Stefan Herbst, Torsten Spanneberg, Lars Conrad, Sven Lodziewski) 3:17.52 4. 3:18.00 5. 3:19.37 6. 3:21.63 DQ 3:15.29 Disqualified for

Nate Dusing Nathaniel James Dusing (born November 25, 1978) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and world champion. Education Dusing won six swimming state championships for Covington Catholic High School before graduating in 1997. ...

replacing Gregory Busse without announcing the change at least one hour before the competition. DQ

References

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Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships