| Final | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Ian Thorpe |  AUS | 3:43.10 | 2. | | 2. Grant Hackett | AUS | 3:43.36 | 1. | | 3. Klete Keller |  USA | 3:44.11 | 5. | | 4. Larsen Jensen | USA | 3:46.08 | 3. | | 5. Massimiliano Rosolino |  ITA | 3:46.25 | 4. | | 6. Yury Prylukov |  RUS | 3:46.69 | 6. | | 7. Spyros Gianniotis |  GRE | 3:48.77 | 7. | | 8. Takeshi Matsuda |  JPN | 3:48.96 | 8. |
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| 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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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Massimiliano Rosolino | ITA | 3:47.72 | 4. | | 2. Klete Keller | USA | 3:47.77 | 5. | | 3. Nicolas Rostoucher |  FRA | 3:50.73 | 12. | | 4. Andrew Hurd | CAN | 3:50.81 | 13. | | 5. Heiko Hell | GER | 3:52.06 | 18. | | 6. Serhiy Fesenko |  UKR | 3:53.41 | 20. | | 7. Ricardo Monasterio |  VEN | 3:54.41 | 23. | | 8. Dimitrios Manganas | GRE | 3:54.78 | 24. |
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Zhang Lin |  CHN | 3:56.65 | 26. | | 2. Juan Martín Pereyra |  ARG | 3:57.26 | 27. | | 3. Leonardo Salinas |  MEX | 3:58.36 | 29. | | 4. Mahrez Mebarek |  ALG | 3:59.10 | 30. | | 5. Bojan Zdešar |  SLO | 3:59.38 | 31. | | 6. Bruno Bonfim |  BRA | 3:59.96 | 34. | | 7. Boldizsár Kiss |  HUN | 4:02.87 | 38. | | -. Park Tae-Han |  KOR | | |
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Giancarlo Zolezzi |  CHI | 3:56.52 | 25. | | 2. Moss Burmester |  NZL | 3:57.29 | 28. | | 3. Petar Stoychev |  BUL | 3:59.86 | 32. | | 4. Charnvudth Saengsri |  THA | 3:59.89 | 33. | | 5. Victor Rogut |  MDA | 4:01.68 | 35. | | 6. Nenad Buljan |  CRO | 4:02.76 | 37. | | 7. Martín Kutscher |  URU | 4:03.21 | 39. | | 8. Aytekin Mindan |  TUR | 4:06.85 | 41. |
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Miguel Mendoza |  PHI | 4:01.99 | 36. | | 2. Chen Te-Tung |  TPE | 4:03.71 | 40. | | 3. Emanuele Nicolini |  SMR | 4:08.28 | 42. | | 4. Anas Sameer Abuyousuf |  QAT | 4:11.99 | 43. | | 5. Vasily Danilov |  KGZ | 4:15.32 | 44. | | 6. Sergey Tsoy |  UZB | 4:16.91 | 45. | | 7. Neil Agius |  MLT | 4:22.14 | 46. |
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