Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 x 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
«2007 2011»
2009 FINA
World Championships
Rome, Italy
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Open water swimming
5 km men women
10 km men women
25 km men women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Synchronised swimming
Solo Technical Free
Duet Technical Free
Team Technical Free
Combination
Water polo
men    •   women
Main article: Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

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.

Contents

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 (47.09) CR, AM
Nicolas Oliveira (47.51)
Guiherme Santos (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
15 3 6  China Chen Zuo (49.70)
Lu 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
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 Ashley Vencatachellum (56.24)
Mathieu Gilles Marquet (57.41)
Jean Pascal Hughes Gregoire (54.96)
Jean Marie Emmanuel 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
6  United States Michael Phelps (47.78)
Ryan Lochte (47.03)
Matt Grevers (47.61)
Nathan Adrian (46.79)		 3:09.21 CR
8  Russia Yevgeny Lagunov (47.90)
Andrey Grechin (47.00)
Danila Izotov (47.23)
Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39)		 3:09.52 NR
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)
Guiherme Santos (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

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