Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Ian Thorpe | AUS | 3:46.55 | 2. | 2. Larsen Jensen | USA | 3:46.90 | 3. | 3. Spyros Gianniotis | GRE | 3:48.77 | 7. | 4. Przemysław Stańczyk | POL | 3:49.22 | 9. | 5. Christian Hein | GER | 3:49.66 | 10. | 6. Emiliano Brembilla | ITA | 3:50.55 | 11. | 7. Marco Rivera | ESP | 3:52.39 | 19. | 8. Graeme Smith | GBR | 3:52.41 | 20. |
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Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Grant Hackett | AUS | 3:46.36 | 1. | 2. Yury Prylukov | RUS | 3:48.71 | 6. | 3. Takeshi Matsuda | JPN | 3:49.05 | 8. | 4. Lukasz Drzewinski | POL | 3:50.97 | 14. | 5. Jacob Carstensen | DEN | 3:51.09 | 15. | 6. Dragoş Coman | ROU | 3:51.73 | 16. | 7. Adam Faulkner | GBR | 3:51.97 | 17. | 8. Mark Johnston | CAN | 3:54.27 | 22. |
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