Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24. The heats and final took place July 24.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordMichael Phelps (47.51)Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02)Cullen Jones (47.65)Jason Lezak (46.06) 3:08.24 Beijing August 11, 2008 Championship record Michael Phelps (47.78)Ryan Lochte (47.03)Matt Grevers (47.61)Nathan Adrian (46.79) 3:09.21 Rome July 26, 2009

Results

Heats

17 teams participated in 3 heats, qualified teams are listed: Rank Heat Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 1 4 Alain Bernard (48.37)Jérémy Stravius (47.87)William Meynard (48.23)Fabien Gilot (47.62) 3:12.09 Q 2 3 4 Garrett Weber-Gale (48.49)Ryan Lochte (48.28)Douglas Robison (48.62)David Walters (48.11) 3:13.50 Q 3 2 4 Vladimir Morozov (49.07)Evgeny Lagunov (48.12)Danila Izotov (48.28)Sergey Fesikov (48.14) 3:13.61 Q 4 3 3 Luca Dotto (48.70)Marco Orsi (48.30)Michele Santucci (48.67)Filippo Magnini (47.94) 3:13.61 Q 5 3 5 Kyle Richardson (48.92)Matthew Abood (47.91)James Roberts (48.25)Eamon Sullivan (48.71) 3:13.79 Q 6 1 3 Steffen Deibler (49.01)Markus Deibler (48.06)Christoph Fildebrandt (48.75)Marco di Carli (48.41) 3:14.23 Q, NR 7 2 3 Graeme Moore (49.61)Darian Townsend (48.12)Gideon Louw (48.11)Leith Shankland (48.88) 3:14.72 Q 8 2 5 Adam Brown (49.05)Liam Tancock (48.51)Grant Turner (48.79)Simon Burnett (49.00) 3:15.35 Q 9 3 2 Bruno Fratus (49.06)Nicolas Oliveira (48.20)Marcos Macedo (50.32)Marcelo Chierighini (48.70) 3:16.28 10 1 6 Takuro Fujii (48.88)Shogo Hihara (48.83)Yoshihiro Okumura (49.63)Takeshi Matsuda (49.29) 3:16.63 11 1 5 Stefan Nystrand (49.49)Petter Stymne (48.65)Lars Frölander (48.79)Robin Andreasson (50.14) 3:17.07 12 2 6 Brent Hayden (48.77)Colin Russell (49.20)Blake Worsley (49.28)Dominique Massie-Martel (50.10) 3:17.35 13 3 6 Lü Zhiwu (49.19)Jiang Haiqi (50.14)He Jianbin (48.50)Zhang Enjian (49.73) 3:17.56 14 3 7 Crox Ernesto Acuna (50.10)Octavio Alesi (50.06)Daniele Tirabassi (49.53)Cristian Quintero (49.49) 3:19.18 15 2 7 Peter Mankoč (49.95)Robert Zbogar (50.96)Jan Karel Petric (53.66)Matjaž Markič (1:05.65) 3:40.22 – 1 2 DNS – 2 2 Yoris Grandjean (49.74)Glenn Surgeloose (49.71)Jasper Aerents (48.57)Pieter Timmers DSQ

Final The final was held at 19:20.

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 2 James Magnussen (47.49)Matthew Targett (47.87)Matthew Abood (47.92)Eamon Sullivan (47.72) 3:11.00 4 Alain Bernard (48.75)Jérémy Stravius (47.78)William Meynard (47.39)Fabien Gilot (47.22) 3:11.14 5 Michael Phelps (48.08)Garrett Weber-Gale (48.33)Jason Lezak (48.15)Nathan Adrian (47.40) 3:11.96 4 6 Luca Dotto (48.56)Marco Orsi (48.51)Michele Santucci (48.01)Filippo Magnini (47.31) 3:12.39 5 3 Evgeny Lagunov (48.89)Andrey Grechin (48.56)Nikita Lobintsev (47.45)Sergey Fesikov (48.09) 3:12.99 6 1 Graeme Moore (48.15)Darian Townsend (47.76)Gideon Louw (47.91)Leith Shankland (49.56) 3:13.38 7 7 Markus Deibler (49.24)Benjamin Starke (49.22)Christoph Fildebrandt (48.45)Marco di Carli (48.10) 3:15.01 8 8 Adam Brown (49.05)Liam Tancock (48.60)Grant Turner (48.86)Simon Burnett (48.52) 3:15.03

References

External links 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.