The Men's 4×200 Freestyle Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 23, 2003. PreliminaryWorlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free Relay -- prelims published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23. Retrieved 2013-06-26. heats swam in the morning session that day, with the top eight teams advancing to swim again in the FinalWorlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free Relay -- final published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23. Retrieved 2013-06-26. that evening.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: WR and CR: 7:04.66 swum by Australia on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan
Results Final Rank Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 Grant Hackett, Craig Stevens, Nicholas Sprenger, Ian Thorpe 7:08.58 2 Michael Phelps, Nate Dusing, Aaron Peirsol, Klete Keller 7:10.26 3 Johannes Oesterling, Lars Conrad, Stefan Herbst, Christian Keller 7:14.02 4 Matteo Pelliciari, Emiliano Brembilla, Federico Cappellazzo, Massimiliano Rosolino 7:14.32 5 Brian Johns, Mike Mintenko, Mark Johnston, Rick Say 7:17.38 6 Simon Burnett, Ross Davenport, Robin Francis, Edward Sinclair 7:18.99 7 Nikolaos Xylouris, Athanasios Oikonomou, Andreas Zisimos, Dimitros Manganas 7:20.60 8 Liu Yu, Wu Peng, Huang Shaohua, Chen Zuo 7:27.96
Preliminaries Rank Heat/Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 H2 L4 Scott Goldblatt, Chad Carvin Kevin Clements, Klete Keller 7:15.91 q 2 H3 L4 Antony Matkovich, Nicholas Sprenger Jason Cram, Craig Stevens 7:17.68 q 3 H1 L4 Filippo Magnini, Alessio Boggiatto Matteo Pelliciari, Christian Galenda 7:19.61 q 4 H2 L5 Johannes Oesterling, Lars Conrad Helge Meeuw, Christian Keller 7:19.67 q 5 H3 L5 Brian Johns, Rick Say Mark Johnston, Brent Hayden 7:20.30 q 6 H3 L3 Simon Burnett, Ross Davenport Adam Faulkner, Edward Sinclair 7:20.86 q 7 H1 L5 Nikolaos Xylouris, Athanasios Oikonomou Andreas Zisimos, Dimitros Manganas 7:21.27 q 8 H1 L3 Liu Yu, Wu Peng Huang Shaohua, Chen Zuo 7:21.74 q 9 H3 L6 Rodrigo Castro, Gustavo Borges Rafael Mosca, Carlos Jayme 7:25.33 10 H3 L7 Martijn Zuijdweg, Arnold van Bavel Thomas Felten, Klaas Erik Zwering 7:25.46 11 H1 L6 Sergiy Fesenko, Yuri Yegoshin Dmytro Vereitinov, Maksym Kokosha 7:25.53 12 H2 L3 Olaf Wildeboer, Javier Nunez Albert Medrano, Marco Rivera 7:29.89 13 H2 L6 Dominik Meichtry, Gerry Strasser David Richard, Philipp Gilgen 7:33.00 14 H2 L2 Gian Carlo Zolezzi, Carlos Castro Roberto Peñailillo, Max Schnettler 7:42.73 15 H1 L2 Timur Irgashev, Petr Vasilev Sergey Tsoy, Alexander Agafonov 7:54.27 16 H2 L7 Kenny Roberts, Bertrand Bristol Barnsley Albert, Jean Paul Adam 8:23.35 - - DNS
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