Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Date	30 March 2007
Teams	27
Winning time	7 minutes 3.24 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps Ryan Lochte Klete Keller Peter Vanderkaay    United States   Patrick Murphy Andrew Mewing Grant Brits Kenrick Monk    Australia   Brian Johns Brent Hayden Rick Say Andrew Hurd    Canada

The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30 March 2007 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The top-12 finishers from this race qualified for the event at the 2008 Olympics. 27 teams entered and swam the event.

The existing records when the event started were:

• World record (WR): 7:04.66, Australia (Hackett, Klim, Kirby, Thorpe), 27 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan.
• Championship record (CR): 7:04.66, Australia (Hackett, Klim, Kirby, Thorpe), Fukuoka 2001 (27 July 2001)

Results

Finals

Place	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
1	USA	Michael Phelps   (1:45.36), Ryan Lochte   (1:45.86), Klete Keller   (1:46.31), Peter Vanderkaay   (1:45.71)	7:03.24	WR
2	Australia	Patrick Murphy   (1:48.55), Andrew Mewing   (1:47.52), Grant Brits   (1:48.21), Kenrick Monk   (1:45.77)	7:10.05
3	Canada	Brian Johns   (1:48.46), Brent Hayden   (1:46.59), Rick Say   (1:47.59), Andrew Hurd   (1:48.06)	7:10.70
4	Great Britain	David Carry   (1:48.16), Robert Renwick   (1:48.94), Simon Burnett   (1:47.20), Ross Davenport   (1:46.98)	7:11.28
5	Italy	Filippo Magnini   (1:47.66), Andrea Busato   (1:50.21), Nicola Cassio   (1:47.87), Massimiliano Rosolino   (1:46.57)	7:12.31
6	Russia	Evgeny Lagunov   (1:48.82), Andrey Kapralov   (1:48.86), Nikita Lobintsev   (1:49.26), Sergey Perunin   (1:47.92)	7:14.86
7	Japan	Takeshi Matsuda   (1:49.40), Yuji Sakurai   (1:49.21), Takamitsu Kojima   (1:50.10), Daisuke Hosokawa   (1:48.75)	7:17.46
	Poland	Paweł Korzeniowski   (1:48.43), Michal Rokicki   (1:49.57), Lukasz Giminski   (1:50.18), Przemysław Stańczyk   (1:49.28)

Heats

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
1	USA	Peter Vanderkaay,   Jayme Cramer, Dave Walters,   Klete Keller	7:10.99	Q Olympic
2	Australia	Kenrick Monk,   Andrew Mewing, Grant Brits,   Nick Ffrost	7:14.84	Q Olympic
3	Canada	Rick Say,   Brian Johns, Andrew Hurd,   Brent Hayden	7:16.00	Q Olympic
4	Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino,   Andrea Busato, Christian Galenda,   Nicola Cassio	7:17.42	Q Olympic
5	Japan	Takeshi Matsuda,   Yuji Sakurai, Takamitsu Kojima,   Daisuke Hosokawa	7:17.45	Q Olympic
6	Russia	Evgeny Lagunov,   Vitaly Romanovich, Sergey Perunin,   Nikita Lobintsev	7:18.14	Q Olympic
7	Great Britain	Ross Davenport,   Andrew Hunter, Robert Lang,   Robert Renwick	7:18.82	Q Olympic
8	Poland	Paweł Korzeniowski,   Michal Rokicki, Lukasz Giminski,   Przemysław Stańczyk	7:18.93	Q Olympic
9	Germany	Paul Biedermann,   Stefan Herbst, Benjamin Starke,   Lars Conrad	7:19.22	Olympic
10	France	Fabien Gilot,   Sébastien Rouault, Nicolas Rostoucher,   Grégory Mallet	7:19.72	Olympic
11	Brazil	Thiago Pereira,   Rodrigo Castro, Nicolas Oliveira,   Armando Negreiros	7:20.00	Olympic
12	Greece	Andreas Zisimos,   Georgios Demetis, Ioannis Giannoulis,   Nikolaos Zylouris	7:20.07	Olympic
13	China	ZHANG Lin,   ZHANG Enjian, YU Chenglong,   CHEN Zuo	7:20.36
14	Portugal	Tiago Venâncio,   Fabio Pereira, Diogo Carvalho,   Adriano Niz	7:20.46
15	Netherlands	Olaf Wildeboer,   Bas van Velthoven, Joost Reijns,   Mitja Zastrow	7:21.51
16	New Zealand	Moss Burmester,   Andrew McMillan, Robert Voss,   Michael Jack	7:22.18
17	Austria	Dominik Koll,   Dinko Jukić, David Brandl,   Florian Janistyn	7:22.58
18	Lithuania	Vytautas Janušaitis (NR),   Saulius Binevičius, Paulius Andrijauskas,   Paulius Viktoravicius	7:25.37	NR
19	Croatia	Dominik Straga,   Saša Imprić, Mario Todorović,   Mario Delač	7:35.43
20	Chile	Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane,   Maximiliano Schnettler, Benjamin Guzman Blanco,   Salvador Mallat Arcaya	7:41.80
21	Uzbekistan	Timur Irgashev,   Ibrahim Nazarov, Petr Romashkin,   Danil Bugakov	7:47.20
22	Singapore	Zhirong Bryan Tay,   Ju Wei Sng, Wen Hao Joshua Lim,   Bing Ming Thum	7:52.17
23	Indonesia	Albert Cristiadi Sutanto,   Felix Cristiadi Sutanto, Brian Howard Ho,   Andy Wibowo	7:52.81
24	Peru	Sebastian Jahnsen,   Gianmarco Mosto, Oscar Jahnsen,   Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni	7:55.97
25	Virgin Islands	Kieran Locke,   Josh Laban, Kevin Hensley,   Morgan Locke	7:56.67
26	India	Rehan Poncha,   Ankur Poseria, Amar Muralidharan,   Virdhawal Khade	8:01.49
27	Guam	Carlos Shimizu,   Celestino Aguon, Hernan Bonsembiante,   Christopher Duenas	8:44.25

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

References

• Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-076-11.