| Rank,Lane,Name,Nationality,Time,Notes | |
| -,5,Pieter van den Hoogenband,Netherlands,48.17,- | |
| -,4,Roland Mark Schoeman,South Africa,48.23,- | |
| -,8,Ian Thorpe,Australia,48.56,- | |
| 4,1,Ryk Neethling,South Africa,48.63,- | |
| 5,3,Filippo Magnini,Italy,48.99,- | |
| 6,7,Duje Draganja,Croatia,49.23,- | |
| 7,2,Salim Iles,Algeria,49.30,- | |
| 7,6,Andrey Kapralov,Russia,49.30,- | |