Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	5 December 2006
Competitors	26 from 18 nations
Medalists
Park Tae-hwan    South Korea   Zhang Lin    China   Takeshi Matsuda    Japan

Main article: Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games

The men's 400m freestyle swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 5, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar.

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Date	Time	Event
Tuesday, 5 December 2006	10:22	Heats
	18:10	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	3:40.08	Manchester, United Kingdom	30 July 2002
Asian Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	3:45.72	Victoria, Canada	20 August 2006
Games Record	Shunichi Fujita (JPN)	3:50.41	Busan, South Korea	2 October 2002

Results

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	Zhang Lin (CHN)	3:54.09
2	3	Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)	3:55.36
3	4	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	3:56.46
4	3	Kang Yong-hwan (KOR)	3:57.42
5	2	Kenichi Doki (JPN)	3:58.20
6	4	Zhang Enjian (CHN)	3:59.62
7	2	Daniel Bego (MAS)	4:01.17
8	3	Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA)	4:01.92
9	3	Marcus Cheah (SIN)	4:03.94
10	4	Naeem Al-Masri (SYR)	4:05.17
11	4	Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE)	4:05.18
12	3	Ryan Arabejo (PHI)	4:05.60
13	2	Nawaf Al-Wazan (KUW)	4:06.93
14	2	Rehan Poncha (IND)	4:07.72
15	4	Timur Irgashev (UZB)	4:08.86
16	4	Ibrahim Nazarov (UZB)	4:09.40
17	4	Chen Te-tung (TPE)	4:10.42
18	2	Chung Kwok Ting (HKG)	4:13.71
19	3	Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT)	4:15.14
20	2	Rashid Iunusov (KGZ)	4:25.25
21	1	Jamil Yamout (LIB)	4:25.42
22	4	Timur Kartabaev (KGZ)	4:31.23
23	3	Soheil Maleka Ashtiani (IRI)	4:31.66
24	1	Ali Adel (IRQ)	4:38.86
25	1	Ali Majeed (IRQ)	4:51.69
—	3	Sng Ju Wei (SIN)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	3:48.44	GR
	Zhang Lin (CHN)	3:49.03
	Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)	3:49.38
4	Zhang Enjian (CHN)	3:53.49
5	Kenichi Doki (JPN)	3:53.61
6	Kang Yong-hwan (KOR)	3:53.66
7	Daniel Bego (MAS)	3:57.34
8	Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA)	4:03.52

References

• Results