Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	30 July 2002
Competitors	18 from 11 nations
Winning time	3:40.08
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Grant Hackett    Australia   Graeme Smith    Scotland
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Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m EAD	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m EAD	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
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
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The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was held on 30 July at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Contents

• Records
• Results
• Heats
• Final
• References

Records

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

World record	Ian Thorpe  (AUS)	3:40.17	Fukuoka, Japan	22 July 2001	[1]
Commonwealth record	Ian Thorpe  (AUS)	3:40.17	Fukuoka, Japan	22 July 2001	[1]
Games record	Ian Thorpe  (AUS)	3:44.35	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	15 September 1998

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
30 July	Final	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:40.08	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:47.24	Q
2	2	4	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:49.13	Q
3	1	4	Graeme Smith	Scotland	3:50.19	Q
4	1	3	Adam Faulkner	England	3:52.39	Q
5	3	5	Craig Stevens	Australia	3:52.78	Q
6	2	5	James Salter	England	3:53.89	Q
7	3	3	Mark Johnston	Canada	3:55.15	Q
8	1	5	Rick Say	Canada	3:55.28	Q
9	2	3	Andrew Hurd	Canada	3:55.67
10	2	6	Stuart Trees	England	3:55.79
11	3	6	David Davies	Wales	3:56.10
12	1	6	Andrew Jameson	Scotland	3:56.88
13	3	2	Damian Alleyne	Barbados	4:06.78
14	2	2	Jonathon Le Noury	Guernsey	4:18.00
15	3	7	Barnsley Albert	Seychelles	4:23.59
16	2	7	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	4:27.73
17	1	7	Kpiliboh Otiko	Nigeria	4:54.15
—	1	2	Alexandros Aresti	Cyprus	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:40.08	WR
	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:43.48
	Graeme Smith	Scotland	3:49.40
4	Craig Stevens	Australia	3:49.84
5	Adam Faulkner	England	3:51.88
6	James Salter	England	3:53.35
7	Rick Say	Canada	3:53.55
8	Mark Johnston	Canada	3:56.25

References

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