The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 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. 35 teams entered in the event, of which 34 swam.
The existing records when the event started were: World record (WR): 3:12.46, USA (Phelps, Walker, Jones, Lezak), 19 August 2006 in Victoria, Canada. Championship record (CR): 3:13.77, USA (Phelps, Walker, Dusing, Lezak), Montreal 2005 (24 July 2005)
Results
Final Place Nation Swimmers Time Note 1 Michael Phelps (48.42), Neil Walker (48.31), Cullen Jones (48.67), Jason Lezak (47.32) 3:12.72 CR 2 Italy Massimiliano Rosolino (49.35), Alessandro Calvi (49.06), Christian Galenda (48.45), Filippo Magnini (47.18) 3:14.04 3 Fabien Gilot (49.18), Frédérick Bousquet (48.48), Julien Sicot (48.84), Alain Bernard (48.18) 3:14.68 4 South Africa Ryk Neethling (49.17), Lyndon Ferns (48.46), Gerhard Zandberg (49.16), Roland Schoeman (47.98) 3:14.77 5 Australia Eamon Sullivan (48.88), Ashley Callus (48.86), Andrew Lauterstein (49.17), Kenrick Monk (48.98) 3:15.89 6 Sweden Petter Stymne (49.78), Stefan Nystrand (48.17), Lars Frölander (48.71), Christoffer Wikström (49.43) 3:16.09 7 Brent Hayden (48.55), Matt Rose (49.42), Rick Say (48.88), Joel Greenshields (50.06) 3:16.91 8 Brazil César Cielo (48.63), Nicolas Oliveira (48.82), Rodrigo Castro (49.45), Thiago Pereira (50.13) 3:17.03 SA
Heats Rank Nation Swimmers Time Note 1 Italy Lorenzo Vismara, Christian Galenda, Alessandro Calvi, Filippo Magnini 3:15.83 Q Olympic 2 Sweden Petter Stymne, Stefan Nystrand, Christoffer Wikström, Marcus Piehl 3:16.16 Q Olympic 3 Garrett Weber-Gale, Ben Wildman-Tobriner, Cullen Jones, Neil Walker 3:16.43 Q Olympic 4 Australia Eamon Sullivan, Michael Klim, Patrick Murphy, Kenrick Monk 3:16.46 Q Olympic 5 Fabien Gilot, Grégory Mallet, Julien Sicot, Amaury Leveaux 3:16.51 Q Olympic 6 Rick Say, Matt Rose, Joel Greenshields, Brent Hayden 3:17.38 Q Olympic 7 Brazil César Cielo, Nicolas Oliveira, Eduardo Deboni, Rodrigo Castro 3:18.00 Q Olympic 8 South Africa Ryk Neethling, Lyndon Ferns, Gerhard Zandberg, Jean Basson 3:18.15 Q Olympic 9 Great Britain Chris Cozens, Simon Burnett, Ross Davenport, Ben Hockin 3:18.96 Olympic 10 Jens Schreiber, Michael Schubert, Jens Thiele, Lars Conrad 3:19.00 Olympic 11 Switzerland Dominik Meichtry, Karel Novy, Alessandro Gaffuri, Flori Lang 3:19.22 Olympic 12 Takamitsu Kojima, Makoto Ito, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Daisuke Hosokawa 3:19.70 Olympic 13 Croatia Bruno Barbic, Mario Todorović, Mario Delač, Igor Čerenšek 3:20.53 14 Venezuela Luis Rojas, Octavio Alesi, Crox Acuña, Albert Subirats 3:21.21 15 HUANG Shaohua, CAI Li, LU Zhiwu, CHEN Zuo 3:21.26 16 New Zealand Cameron Gibson, Robert Voss, Mark Herring, Michael Jack 3:21.73 17 Uruguay Paul Kutscher, Gabriel Melconian, Francisco Picasso, Martín Kutscher 3:22.13 18 Kazakhstan Stanislav Kuzmin, Alaxandr Sklyar, Vitaliy Khan, Vyacheslav Titarenko 3:23.11 19 India Ankur Poseria, Arjun Muralidharan, Sandeep Nagar Anthal, Virdhawal Khade 3:32.51 20 Kenya Jason Dunford, David Dunford, Rama Vyombo, Amar Shah 3:32.60 21 Indonesia Brian Howard Ho, Albert Cristiadi Sutanto, Felix Cristiadi Sutanto, Andy Wibowo 3:34.26 22 Virgin Islands Keiran Locke, Morgan Locke, Kevin Hensley, Josh Laban 3:34.92 23 Peru Nikola Ustadvich, Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni, Oscar Jahnsen, Sebastian Jahnsen 3:35.63 24 Macau Wing Cheung Victor Wong, Wui Chon Cheong, Kin Wa Cheong, Hong Name Lei 3:46.10 25 Guam Carlos Shimizu, Celestino Aguon, Hernan Bonsembiante, Christopher Duenas 3:50.46 26 Guyana Onan Thom, Niall Roberts, Jamaal Sobers, Yannick Roberts 3:55.87 27 Thailand Suriya Suksuphak, Radomyos Matjiur, Arwut Chinnapasaen, Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart 3:56.05 28 Mongolia Batchuluun Mendbayar, Battushig Enkhtaivan, Butekhuils Boldbaatar, Tamir Andrei 3:56.81 29 Lesotho Thabiso Baholo (1:22.22), Lehlohonolo Moromella (1:34.45), Boipelo Makhothi (1:18.30), Seele Benjamin Ntai (1:27.99) 5:42.96 NR -- Nigeria DNS -- Uzbekistan Ravil Nachaev, Sergey Tsoy, Petr Romashkin, Danil Bugakov DQ -- Russia Andrey Grechin, Andrey Kapralov, Sergey Fesikov, Evgeny Lagunov DQ -- Lithuania Rolandas Gimbutis, Saulius Binevičius, Paulius Viktoravicius, Vytautas Janušaitis DQ -- Singapore Shirong Jeffrey Su, Quee Lim Ernest Teo, Bing Ming Thum, Russell Ong DQ -- Ukraine Andriy Serdinov, Oleksandr Tsepukh, Oleksandr Isakov, Yuriy Yegoshin DQ
See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
References
Men's 4x100m 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 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.