The Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December 2016.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Nation Time Location DateWorld record3:03.30Manchester19 December 2009Championship record3:03.78Doha3 December 2014

Results Heats The heats were held at 13:37.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 3 6 Clément Mignon (46.75)Medhy Metella (46.38)Jérémy Stravius (46.56)Yonel Govindin (48.36) 3:08.05 Q 2 1 8 Nikita Lobintsev (47.76)Aleksei Brianskiy (47.39)Mikhail Vekovishchev (46.84)Aleksandr Popkov (46.40) 3:08.39 Q 3 1 9 Breyden McCarthy (47.36)Jack Gerrard (47.61)David Morgan (47.50)Tommaso D'Orsogna (46.50) 3:08.97 Q 4 2 5 Paul Powers (48.24)Matthew Josa (47.78)Michael Chadwick (46.66)Blake Pieroni (46.34) 3:09.02 Q 5 2 0 Yuri Kisil (47.26)Markus Thormeyer (47.92)Evan van Moerkerke (48.06)Javier Acevedo (47.56) 3:10.80 Q 6 1 0 Shinri Shioura (47.58)Kenta Ito (47.43)Kosuke Matsui (48.52)Katsuhiro Matsumoto (47.80) 3:11.33 Q 7 2 2 Nyls Korstanje (47.99)Ben Schwietert (47.55)Dion Dreesens (47.72)Kyle Stolk (48.81) 3:12.07 Q 8 1 4 Yauhen Tsurkin (48.64)Anton Latkin (47.97)Viktar Staselovich (48.71)Artsiom Machekin (47.57) 3:12.89 Q 9 1 6 Li Zhuhao (48.59)Lin Yongqing (47.49)Yu Hexin (48.73)Liu Zhaochen (48.16) 3:12.97 10 1 5 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (48.51)Matias Koski (47.63)Andrei Tuomola (48.39)Riku Poytakivi (48.53) 3:13.06 NR 11 1 7 Christoffer Carlsen (48.00)Axel Pettersson (47.98)Daniel Forndal (49.08)Robin Andreasson (48.30) 3:13.36 12 2 9 Ádám Telegdy (48.40)Maksim Lobanovskii (47.17)Richárd Márton (49.20)Márton Barta (50.47) 3:15.24 NR 13 1 1 Douglas Erasmus (47.96)Alaric Basson (50.27)Alard Basson (50.65)Eben Vorster (50.26) 3:19.14 14 2 1 Benjamin Hockin (48.21)Ivo Kunzle Savastano (51.79)Mathias Zacarias (52.35)Charles Hockin (48.10) 3:20.45 15 1 2 Man Hou Chao (50.49)Pok Man Ngou (51.62)Cheng Man Yum (53.39)Sizhuang Lin (51.22) 3:26.72 NR 16 2 7 Sam Seghers (50.84)Stanford Kawale (52.78)Livingston Aika (54.08)Ryan Pini (49.06) 3:26.76 NR 17 2 4 Esteban Araya (53.31)José David Solis Rosales (55.26)Arnoldo Herrera (52.62)Juan Dobles (51.47) 3:32.66 NR — 1 3 DNS — 2 3 DNS — 2 8 DNS

Final The final was held at 20:22.

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 5 Nikita Lobintsev (47.34) Mikhail Vekovishchev (46.96) Vladimir Morozov (45.42) Aleksandr Popkov (46.18) 3:05.90 4 Clément Mignon (46.91) Jérémy Stravius (46.21) Jordan Pothain (47.90) Mehdy Metella (46.33) 3:07.35 3 Brayden McCarthy (47.57) Daniel Smith (46.84) David Morgan (47.48) Tommaso D'Orsogna (45.87) 3:07.76 6 Michael Chadwick (47.56) Tom Shields (46.59) Paul Powers (47.59) Blake Pieroni (46.02) 3:07.76 5 7 Shinri Shioura (47.48) Kenta Ito (47.10) Kosuke Matsui (47.66) Katsuhiro Matsumoto (47.51) 3:09.75 6 1 Nyls Korstanje (47.59) Ben Schwietert (47.83) Dion Dreesens (47.40) Kyle Stolk (47.05) 3:09.87 7 2 Yuri Kisil (47.03) Markus Thormeyer (47.57) Evan van Moerkerke (48.05) Javier Acevedo (47.31) 3:09.96 8 8 Yauhen Tsurkin (48.43) Anton Latkin (48.07) Viktar Staselovich (48.50) Artsiom Machekin (47.77) 3:12.77

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