Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle
Final

Rank
Lane
Name
Nationality
Time
Notes
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4
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Netherlands
48.30
-
-
3
Alexander Popov
Russia
48.69
-
-
7
Gary Hall, Jr.
United States
48.73
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4
5
Michael Klim
Australia
48.74
-
5
2
Neil Walker
United States
49.09
-
6
6
Lars Frölander
Sweden
49.22
-
7
1
Denis Pimankov
Russia
49.36
-
8
8
Chris Fydler
Australia
49.44
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Question: In the men's 100 metre freestyle final in the swimming events at the 2000 Summer Olympics, who finished first, and in what time, to defeat Alexander Popov?
Answer: Pieter van den Hoogenband posted a time of 48.30 to hold off Russia's Alexander Popov.