The Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2018.

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

The following new records were set during this competition Date Event Nation Time Record 11 December Final 3:03.03

Results Heats The heats were started on 11 December at 12:37.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 1 4 Evgeny Rylov (46.09)Ivan Kuzmenko (46.58)Mikhail Vekovishchev (46.32)Ivan Girev (46.17) 3:05.16 Q 2 1 7 Matheus Santana (47.41)Marcelo Chierighini (46.52)Breno Correia (45.32)César Cielo (46.45) 3:05.70 Q, SA 3 1 6 Ryan Held (45.82)Kyle DeCoursey (46.92)Michael Jensen (46.41)Matt Grevers (46.57) 3:05.72 Q 4 2 3 Santo Condorelli (47.23)Lorenzo Zazzeri (46.99)Davide Nardini (47.44)Alessandro Miressi (46.52) 3:08.18 Q 5 1 5 Katsumi Nakamura (46.54)Kaiya Seki (47.38)Kosuke Matsui (47.18)Fuyu Yoshida (47.16) 3:08.26 Q 6 2 4 Louis Townsend (47.03)Alexander Graham (46.94)Jack Gerrard (46.97)Thomas Fraser-Holmes (47.62) 3:08.56 Q 7 2 2 Yauhen Tsurkin (47.85)Hryhory Pekarski (47.45)Mikita Tsmyh (48.81)Artsiom Machekin (47.41) 3:11.52 Q, NR 8 2 5 Hou Yujie (48.34)Cao Jiwen (47.48)He Junyi (48.17)Yu Hexin (47.98) 3:11.97 Q 9 2 6 Hüseyin Emre Sakçı (47.97)Iskender Baslakov (48.28)Yalım Acımış (48.46)Kemal Arda Gürdal (47.55) 3:12.26 NR 10 1 2 Miguel Nascimento (47.61) NRGabriel Lopes (48.14)Diogo Carvalho (50.33)Alexis Santos (49.48) 3:15.56 NR 11 2 7 Daniel Hunter (48.06)Andrew Jeffcoat (48.92)Matthew Hyde (50.50)Wilrich Coetzee (48.98) 3:16.46 12 1 3 Lin Chien-liang (49.46)Huang Yen-hsin (49.00)Chuang Mu-lun (48.84)An Ting-yao (49.31) 3:16.61 13 2 1 Yordan Yanchev (49.02)Svetlozar Nikolov (49.88)Kaloyan Bratanov (50.10)Antani Ivanov (50.51) 3:19.51 NR

Final The final was held on 11 December at 20:52.Final results

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 3 Caeleb Dressel (45.66)Blake Pieroni (45.75)Michael Chadwick (45.86)Ryan Held (45.76) 3:03.03 4 Vladislav Grinev (46.38)Sergey Fesikov (46.21)Vladimir Morozov (45.06)Kliment Kolesnikov (45.46) 3:03.11 ER 5 Matheus Santana (46.83)Marcelo Chierighini (46.37)César Cielo (46.34)Breno Correia (45.61) 3:05.15 SA 4 6 Santo Condorelli (46.76)Alessandro Miressi (46.03)Marco Orsi (46.41)Lorenzo Zazzeri (46.00) 3:05.20 NR 5 7 Cameron McEvoy (46.28)Louis Townsend (46.85)Jack Gerrard (46.86)Alexander Graham (46.50) 3:06.49 6 2 Katsumi Nakamura (46.22 NR)Kaiya Seki (46.87)Kosuke Matsui (46.92)Fuyu Yoshida (47.86) 3:07.87 7 8 Hou Yujie (48.09)Cao Jiwen (46.96)He Junyi (47.54)Yu Hexin (47.96) 3:10.55 NR 8 1 Yauhen Tsurkin (47.76)Hryhory Pekarski (47.07)Viktar Staselovich (48.33)Artsiom Machekin (47.43) 3:10.59 NR

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