1994 | Kieren Perkins | World Record |

Kieren Perkins takes gold, in a new world record time, to win Gold in the 400m Freestyle at the 1994 World Swimming Championships in Rome | Perkin's time of 3:43.80 betters the previous world mark by over a second | Antti Kasvio of Finland finishes second with Danyon Loader of New Zealand taking the bronze | Australian Daniel Kowalski finishes 4th | This footage has been taken from a Channel 7 Australia broadcast | If this is a breach of copyright please advise and it will be removed

[@verram98]

Shame he couldn’t win this event in Atlanta two years later

[@donna25871]

Thanks for the upload - have been looking for the McAvaney/Brooks commentary of this swim. I did have this on VHS but tossed it.

[@cooldumpy7913]

do you have thorpe's 3:41.83 by any chance?

[@mc1703]

"He is the greatest"