Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Date	26 July 2009
Teams	41
Winning time	3 minutes 09.21 seconds
Medalists
United States Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Matt Grevers, Nathan Adrian, Garrett Weber-Gale*, Ricky Berens*, Cullen Jones*    Russia Yevgeny Lagunov, Andrey Grechin, Danila Izotov, Alexander Sukhorukov, Nikita Konovalov*    France Fabien Gilot, Alain Bernard, Grégory Mallet, Frédérick Bousquet, Amaury Leveaux*, William Meynard* * Swimmers who participated in the heats only

The men's 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships took place on 26 July 2009 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

The existing records when the event started were:

Record	Swimmers	Time	Location
World record	United States (USA) Michael Phelps (47.51) Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02) Cullen Jones (47.65) Jason Lezak (46.06)	3:08.24	Beijing 2008
Championship record	United States (USA) Michael Phelps (48.42) Neil Walker (48.31) Cullen Jones (48.67) Jason Lezak (47.32)	3:12.72	Melbourne 2007

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	5	6	Brazil	César Cielo Filho (47.39) CR, AM Nicolas Oliveira (47.51) Guilherme Roth (48.15)   Fernando Silva (48.21)	3:11.26	CR, SA
2	4	4	France	Amaury Leveaux (48.37) Grégory Mallet (47.78) William Meynard (48.11) Fabien Gilot (47.12)	3:11.38
3	4	3	Great Britain	Adam Brown (49.01) Simon Burnett (47.57) Liam Tancock (47.74) Ross Davenport (47.30)	3:11.62	NR
4	5	4	United States	Garrett Weber-Gale (48.30) Matt Grevers (47.55) Ricky Berens (48.19) Cullen Jones (47.60)	3:11.64
5	5	5	Italy	Francesco Donin (48.79) Alessandro Calvi (47.88) Marco Orsi (47.89) Christian Galenda (47.20)	3:11.76
6	5	3	South Africa	Lyndon Ferns (47.94) AF Darian Townsend (48.02) Roland Mark Schoeman (48.54) Graeme Moore (47.58)	3:12.08	AF
7	3	4	Australia	Matthew Abood (48.35) Andrew Lauterstein (48.32) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.84) Matt Targett (48.07)	3:12.58
8	3	3	Russia	Yevgeny Lagunov (48.48) Danila Izotov (48.21) Nikita Konovalov (48.46) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.63)	3:12.78	NR
9	3	5	Canada	Brent Hayden (47.77) Joel Greenshields (48.36) Colin Russell (48.11) Stefan Hirniak (48.72)	3:12.96
10	4	5	Sweden	Stefan Nystrand (47.52) NR Lars Frölander (48.12) Simon Sjödin (48.62) Petter Stymne (49.12)	3:13.38
11	4	2	Japan	Takuro Fujii (48.87) Rammaru Harada (49.37) Yoshihiro Okumura (47.93) Makoto Ito (49.46)	3:15.63	AS
12	5	2	Switzerland	Dominik Meichtry (49.02) Flori Lang (48.15) Gregory Widmer (48.63) Aurelien Kunzi (50.33)	3:16.13	NR
13	4	6	Poland	Konrad Czerniak (48.61) Marcin Tarczynski (48.95) Lukasz Gasior (48.80) Mateusz Stawinski (49.99)	3:16.35
14	4	8	Lithuania	Vytautas Janušaitis (49.50) Paulius Viktoravicius (48.01) Mindaugas Sadauskas (48.90) Mindaugas Margis (50.06)	3:16.47	NR
15	3	6	China	Chen Zuo (49.70) Lü Zhiwu (49.04) Shi Tengfei (49.27) Cai Li (49.07)	3:17.08
16	3	2	Venezuela	Crox Acuna (49.95) Octavio Alesi (49.69) Roberto Gómez (48.84) Albert Subirats (49.31)	3:17.79	NR
17	2	1	Belgium	Pholien Systermans (50.19) Yoris Grandjean (49.12) Pierre Yves Romanini (49.43) Glenn Surgeloose (49.23)	3:17.97	NR
18	1	4	Czech Republic	Michal Rubacek (49.46) Martin Verner (48.87) Jan Sefl (50.11) Květoslav Svoboda (50.23)	3:18.67	NR
19	3	0	Ireland	Barry Murphy (49.98) NR Ryan Harrison (50.87) Conor Leaney (49.51) Karl Burdis (51.41)	3:21.77	NR
20	5	7	Kazakhstan	Stanislav Kuzmin (50.69) Alexandr Sklyar (50.13) Oleg Rabota (51.34) Artur Dilman (50.79)	3:22.95
21	4	1	Uzbekistan	Daniil Tulupov (50.89) Danil Bugakov (50.10) Dmitriy Shvetsov (51.36) Petr Romashkin (51.20)	3:23.55
22	5	0	Iran	Emin Noshadi (52.23) Pasha Vahdati Rad (51.37) Saeid Malekae Ashtiani (51.69) Mohammad Bidaryan (51.09)	3:26.38
23	3	7	Barbados	Shawn Clarke (50.40) NR Martyn Forde (51.85) Terrence Haynes (50.67) Vaughn Forsythe (54.23)	3:27.15	NR
24	5	1	Philippines	Miguel Molina (51.84) Kendrick Uy (53.29) Charles William Walker (51.35) Daniel Coakley (51.53)	3:28.01
25	5	8	Singapore	Lim Clement (52.35) Lim Wen Hao Joshua (51.16) Tan Xue Wei Nicholas (52.21) Su Shirong Jeffrey (52.40)	3:28.12
26	3	8	India	Arjun Jayaprakash (55.25) Rehan Poncha (55.71) Virdhawal Khade (50.78) Ashwin Menon (53.50)	3:35.24
27	3	1	Kuwait	Mohammed Madouh (52.58) Humoud Alhumoud (54.62) Abdulrahman Albader (54.12) Marzouq Alsalem (54.29)	3:35.61
28	4	0	United Arab Emirates	Obaid Al Jesmi (53.54) Mubarak Al Besher (56.03) Saeed Al Jesmi (54.84) Mohammed Al Ghaferi (53.54)	3:37.95
29	4	9	Senegal	Papa Madiop Ndong (55.79) Matar Samb (54.82) Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane (54.84) Malick Fall (52.87)	3:38.32
30	2	7	Nigeria	Samson Focados Opuakpo (54.06) Eric Williams (56.55) Pepelate Gbagi (55.73) Yellow Yeiyah (55.05)	3:41.39
31	2	4	Armenia	Sergey Pevnev (58.67) Andranik Harutyunyan (53.50) Khachik Plavchyan (58.48) Mikayel Koloyan (51.17)	3:41.82
32	2	3	Albania	Endi Babi (54.87) Mario Sulkja (58.16) Eduart Cane (56.48) Sidni Hoxha (52.62)	3:42.13
33	1	5	Malta	Neil Agius (55.41) Edward Caruana Dingli (54.90) Andrea Agius (56.05) Mark Sammut (56.33)	3:42.69
34	3	9	Macau	Lao Kuan Fong (54.26) Antonio Tong (55.86) Wong Wing Cheung Victor (54.93) Chong Cheok Kuan (58.24)	3:43.29
35	2	5	Mauritius	Ronny Vencatachellum (56.24) Mathieu Marquet (57.41) Jean Hugues Gregoire (54.96) Jean Marie Froget (56.47)	3:45.08
36	1	3	Mozambique	Leonel Matonse (55.50) Ivo Chilaule (55.62) Gerusio Matonse (58.30) Patricio Vera (56.00)	3:45.42
37	2	6	Papua New Guinea	Ryan Pini (50.13) Daniel Kevin Pryke (56.59) Ian Bond Wolongkatop Nakmai (1:02.57) Peter Popahun Pokawin (56.48)	3:45.77
38	2	2	Northern Mariana Islands	Eli Ebenezer Wong (56.03) Cooper Graf (1:01.94) Shin Kimura (1:03.72) Kailan Staal (56.14)	3:57.83
–	2	8	Croatia		DNS
–	5	9	Saudi Arabia		DNS
–	4	7	Colombia		DQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
01 !	6	United States	Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)	3:09.21	CR
02 !	8	Russia	Yevgeny Lagunov (47.90) Andrey Grechin (47.00) Danila Izotov (47.23) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39)	3:09.52	NR
03 !	5	France	Fabien Gilot (47.73) Alain Bernard (46.46) Grégory Mallet (48.28) Frédérick Bousquet (47.42)	3:09.89
4	4	Brazil	César Cielo Filho (47.09) CR, AM Nicolas Oliveira (47.39) Guilherme Roth (48.15) Fernando Silva (48.17)	3:10.80	SA
5	2	Italy	Alessandro Calvi (49.03) Christian Galenda (47.60) Marco Orsi (47.91) Filippo Magnini (47.39)	3:11.93
5	7	South Africa	Lyndon Ferns (48.32) Graeme Moore (48.05) Darian Townsend (48.05) Roland Mark Schoeman (47.51)	3:11.93	AF
7	3	Great Britain	Adam Brown (48.66) Simon Burnett (47.50) Liam Tancock (47.81) Ross Davenport (48.12)	3:12.09
8	1	Australia	Matthew Abood (48.79) Matt Targett (47.49) Andrew Lauterstein (48.41) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.71)	3:12.40

External links

• Preliminary Results
• Final Results