The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 World Championships took place on July 31, 2009 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. 30 countries entered the event, of which 27 swam.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World Record United States (USA)Michael Phelps (1:43.31)Ryan Lochte (1:44.28)Ricky Berens (1:46.29)Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68) 6:58.56 Beijing, China 13 August 2008 Championship Record United States (USA)Michael Phelps (1:45.36)Ryan Lochte (1:45.86)Klete Keller (1:46.31)Peter Vanderkaay (1:45.71) 7:03.24 Melbourne, Australia 30 March 2007 The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Nation Time Record 31 July Final Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46) 6:58.55

Results Heats

Rank Heat Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 3 4 Ricky Berens (1:44.95) Daniel Madwed (1:45.63) Davis Tarwater (1:47.94) Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.78) 7:03.30 3 3 Shogo Hihara (1:46.75) Yoshihiro Okumura (1:44.73) Shunsuke Kuzuhara (1:46.41) Takeshi Matsuda (1:45.41) AS 3 1 4 Nic Ffrost (1:46.93) Robert Hurley (1:45.96) Kirk Palmer (1:46.65) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:46.02) 7:05.56 4 3 6 Paul Biedermann (1:44.02) Felix Wolf (1:48.25) Yannick Lebherz (1:47.54) Clemens Rapp (1:45.81) 7:05.62 5 1 5 Robert Renwick (1:46.11) NR Andrew Hunter (1:46.85) David Davies (1:46.77) David Carry (1:46.38) 7:06.11 6 2 4 Yevgeny Lagunov (1:48.30) Mikhail Polischuk (1:44.93) Sergei Perunin (1:46.53) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:46.68) 7:06.44 7 2 3 Jean Basson (1:45.99) Darian Townsend (1:46.22) Jan Albert Venter (1:47.78) Sebastien Rousseau (1:48.02) 7:08.01AF 8 3 5 Cesare Sciocchetti (1:47.81) Massimiliano Rosolino (1:48.26) Gianluca Maglia (1:45.60) Damiano Lestingi (1:46.40) 7:08.07 9 2 6 László Cseh (1:45.78) NR Péter Bernek (1:47.88) Zoltán Povázsay (1:47.99) Gergő Kis (1:46.59) 7:08.24NR 10 3 2 Thiago Pereira (1:46.57) SA Rodrigo Castro (1:48.23) Lucas Salatta (1:48.48) Nicolas Oliveira (1:46.43) 7:09.71SA 11 2 5 Colin Russell (1:47.81) Stefan Hirniak (1:45.62) Blake Worsley (1:48.71) Joel Greenshields (1:47.77) 7:09.91 12 1 6 Paweł Korzeniowski (1:46.59) Konrad Czerniak (1:47.49) Lukasz Wojt (1:48.25) Pawel Rupak (1:49.77) 7:12.10 13 2 2 Cesar Faria (1:49.30) Jorge Maia (1:49.67) Diogo Carvalho (1:48.83) Fabio Pereira (1:48.68) 7:16.48NR 14 2 0 Glenn Surgeloose (1:49.66) Pholien Systermans (1:48.94) Stef Verachten (1:49.48) Yoris Grandjean (1:49.35) 7:17.43NR 15 1 3 Sun Yang (1:51.30) Xin Tong (1:50.27) Shi Tengfei (1:49.54) Chen Zuo (1:49.39) 7:20.50 16 1 2 Daniele Tirabassi (1:49.77) Roberto Gomez (1:51.31) Alejandro Gómez (1:51.03) Crox Acuna (1:48.45) 7:20.56NR 17 1 9 David Karasek (1:49.46) Dominik Meichtry (1:48.67) Duncan Furrer (1:53.00) Simon Rabold (1:51.50) 7:22.63 NR 18 3 7 Artur Dilman (1:54.76) Oleg Rabota (1:51.64) Stanislav Kuzmin (1:53.70) Dmitriy Gordiyenko (1:52.98) 7:33.08 19 1 7 Petr Romashkin (1:53.01) Danil Bugakov (1:53.47) Sobitjon Amilov (1:54.29) Daniil Tulupov (1:53.94) 7:34.71 20 2 1 Hsu Chi-Chieh (1:52.70) Chien Jui-Ting (1:53.37) Pan Kai-Wen (1:55.63) Lin Kuan-Ting (1:55.13) 7:36.83 21 2 7 Danny Yeo (1:57.33) Lim Wen Hao Joshua (1:52.67) Tan Xue Wei Nicholas (1:53.98) Lim Clement (1:54.56) 7:38.54 22 1 1 Mandar Divase (2:00.23) Virdhawal Khade (2:01.54) Rehan Poncha (2:04.98) Ashwin Menon (2:01.09) 8:07.84 23 2 8 Mohammed Al Ghaferi (2:00.57) Ali Al Kaabi (2:02.70) Mubarak Al Besher (2:04.63) Obaid Al Jasmi (1:59.99) 8:07.89 NR 24 3 8 Antonio Tong (2:00.51) Lao Kuan Fong (2:02.52) Wong Wing Cheung Victor (2:01.88) Ngou Pok Man (2:03.72) 8:08.63 25 2 9 Neil Agius (1:59.92) dEdward Caruana Dingli (2:03.55) Mark Sammut (2:04.69) Andrea Agius (2:03.50) 8:11.66 26 3 0 Endi Babi (1:58.90) Mario Sulkja (2:14.21) Jon Pepaj (2:07.03) Sidni Hoxha (2:05.19) 8:25.33 27 1 8 Eli Ebenezer Wong (2:02.46) Cooper Graf (2:16.29) Shin Kimura (2:15.07) Kailan Staal (2:01.92) 8:35.74 – 1 0 DNS – 3 1 DNS – 3 9 DNS

Final

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Note 4 Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46) 6:58.55 7 Nikita Lobintsev (1:45.10) Mikhail Polischuk (1:45.42) Danila Izotov (1:44.48) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:44.15) 6:59.15 ER 3 Kenrick Monk (1:46.00) Robert Hurley (1:46.47) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:44.82) Patrick Murphy (1:44.36) 7:01.65 OC 4 5 Sho Uchida (1:45.90) Yoshihiro Okumura (1:45.83) Shogo Hihara (1:45.99) Takeshi Matsuda (1:44.54) 7:02.26 AS 5 6 Paul Biedermann (1:42.81) Felix Wolf (1:47.65) Yannick Lebherz (1:47.31) Clemens Rapp (1:45.42) 7:03.19 NR 6 8 Emiliano Brembilla (1:46.29) NR Gianluca Maglia (1:45.85) Marco Belotti (1:45.46) Filippo Magnini (1:45.88) 7:03.48 NR 7 2 Robert Renwick (1:45.99) NR Robert Bale (1:47.18) David Carry (1:46.41) Ross Davenport (1:46.09) 7:05.67 NR 8 1 Jean Basson (1:46.13) Darian Townsend (1:46.81) Jan Albert Venter (1:47.13) Sebastien Rousseau (1:48.44) 7:08.51

See also Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

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