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| 2 | Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle - Final |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | - | 5 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 48.17 | - |
| 5 | - | 4 | Roland Mark Schoeman | South Africa | 48.23 | - |
| 6 | - | 8 | Ian Thorpe | Australia | 48.56 | - |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 48.63 | - |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 48.99 | - |
| 9 | 6 | 7 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 49.23 | - |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Salim Iles | Algeria | 49.30 | - |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | Andrey Kapralov | Russia | 49.30 | - |

Question: How did Ian Thorpe perform compared to Ryk Neethling in the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's 100 metre freestyle?
Answer: Australia's Ian Thorpe edged out Ryk Neethling with 48.56 and clinched a bronze medal by 0.07 of a second.