The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30 March 2007 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The top-12 finishers from this race qualified for the event at the 2008 Olympics. 27 teams entered and swam the event.
The existing records when the event started were: World record (WR): 7:04.66, Australia (Hackett, Klim, Kirby, Thorpe), 27 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan. Championship record (CR): 7:04.66, Australia (Hackett, Klim, Kirby, Thorpe), Fukuoka 2001 (27 July 2001)
Results
Finals Place Nation Swimmers Time Note 1 USA Michael Phelps (1:45.36), Ryan Lochte (1:45.86),Klete Keller (1:46.31), Peter Vanderkaay (1:45.71) 7:03.24 2 Australia Patrick Murphy (1:48.55), Andrew Mewing (1:47.52),Grant Brits (1:48.21), Kenrick Monk (1:45.77) 7:10.05 3 Canada Brian Johns (1:48.46), Brent Hayden (1:46.59),Rick Say (1:47.59), Andrew Hurd (1:48.06) 7:10.70 4 Great Britain David Carry (1:48.16), Robert Renwick (1:48.94),Simon Burnett (1:47.20), Ross Davenport (1:46.98) 7:11.28 5 Italy Filippo Magnini (1:47.66), Andrea Busato (1:50.21),Nicola Cassio (1:47.87), Massimiliano Rosolino (1:46.57) 7:12.31 6 Russia Evgeny Lagunov (1:48.82), Andrey Kapralov (1:48.86),Nikita Lobintsev (1:49.26), Sergey Perunin (1:47.92) 7:14.86 7 Japan Takeshi Matsuda (1:49.40), Yuji Sakurai (1:49.21),Takamitsu Kojima (1:50.10), Daisuke Hosokawa (1:48.75) 7:17.46 Poland Paweł Korzeniowski (1:48.43), Michal Rokicki (1:49.57),Lukasz Giminski (1:50.18), Przemysław Stańczyk (1:49.28)
Heats Rank Nation Swimmers Time Note 1 USA Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.67), Jayme Cramer (1:47.97), Dave Walters (1:47.75), Klete Keller (1:48.60) 7:10.99 Q Olympic 2 Australia Kenrick Monk (1:49.13), Andrew Mewing (1:47.95), Grant Brits (1:48.73), Nick Ffrost (1:49.03) 7:14.84 Q Olympic 3 Canada Rick Say (1:50.13), Brian Johns (1:48.06), Andrew Hurd (1:47.63), Brent Hayden (1:50.18) 7:16.00 Q Olympic 4 Italy Massimiliano Rosolino (1:48.85), Andrea Busato (1:49.44), Christian Galenda (1:50.03), Nicola Cassio (1:48.93) 7:17.42 Q Olympic 5 Japan Takeshi Matsuda (1:49.05), Yuji Sakurai (1:49.44), Takamitsu Kojima (1:50.03), Daisuke Hosokawa (1:48.93) 7:17.45 Q Olympic 6 Russia Evgeny Lagunov (1:48.96), Vitaly Romanovich (1:50.63), Sergey Perunin (1:48.92), Nikita Lobintsev (1:49.63) 7:18.14 Q Olympic 7 Great Britain Ross Davenport (1:50.34), Andrew Hunter (1:49.47), Robert Lang (1:50.07), Robert Renwick (1:48.94) 7:18.82 Q Olympic 8 Poland Paweł Korzeniowski (1:49.01), Michal Rokicki (1:49.98), Lukasz Giminski (1:50.64), Przemysław Stańczyk (1:49.30) 7:18.93 Q Olympic 9 Germany Paul Biedermann (1:49.59), Stefan Herbst (1:49.42), Benjamin Starke (1:49.64), Lars Conrad (1:50.57) 7:19.22 Olympic 10 France Fabien Gilot (1:49.02), Sébastien Rouault (1:49.77), Nicolas Rostoucher (1:50.30), Grégory Mallet (1:50.63) 7:19.72 Olympic 11 Brazil Thiago Pereira, Rodrigo Castro, Nicolas Oliveira, Armando Negreiros 7:20.00 Olympic 12 Greece Andreas Zisimos, Georgios Demetis, Ioannis Giannoulis, Nikolaos Zylouris 7:20.07 Olympic 13 China ZHANG Lin, ZHANG Enjian, YU Chenglong, CHEN Zuo 7:20.36 14 Portugal Tiago Venâncio, Fabio Pereira, Diogo Carvalho, Adriano Niz 7:20.46 15 Netherlands Olaf Wildeboer, Bas van Velthoven, Joost Reijns, Mitja Zastrow 7:21.51 16 New Zealand Moss Burmester, Andrew McMillan, Robert Voss, Michael Jack 7:22.18 17 Austria Dominik Koll, Dinko Jukić, David Brandl, Florian Janistyn 7:22.58 18 Lithuania Vytautas Janušaitis (NR), Saulius Binevičius, Paulius Andrijauskas, Paulius Viktoravicius 7:25.37 NR 19 Croatia Dominik Straga, Saša Imprić, Mario Todorović, Mario Delač 7:35.43 20 Chile Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane, Maximiliano Schnettler, Benjamin Guzman Blanco, Salvador Mallat Arcaya 7:41.80 21 Uzbekistan Timur Irgashev, Ibrahim Nazarov, Petr Romashkin, Danil Bugakov 7:47.20 22 Singapore Zhirong Bryan Tay, Ju Wei Sng, Wen Hao Joshua Lim, Bing Ming Thum 7:52.17 23 Indonesia Albert Cristiadi Sutanto, Felix Cristiadi Sutanto, Brian Howard Ho, Andy Wibowo 7:52.81 24 Peru Sebastian Jahnsen, Gianmarco Mosto, Oscar Jahnsen, Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni 7:55.97 25 Virgin Islands Kieran Locke, Josh Laban, Kevin Hensley, Morgan Locke 7:56.67 26 India Rehan Poncha, Ankur Poseria, Amar Muralidharan, Virdhawal Khade 8:01.49 27 Guam Carlos Shimizu, Celestino Aguon, Hernan Bonsembiante, Christopher Duenas 8:44.25
See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
References
Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11. Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-076-11.