Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 4, 2006, at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar.

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	4 December 2006
Competitors	61 from 14 nations
Medalists
Japan Takeshi Matsuda, Yuji Sakurai, Takamitsu Kojima, Daisuke Hosokawa    China Yu Chenglong, Zhang Enjian, Chen Zuo, Zhang Lin    South Korea Lim Nam-gyun, Han Kyu-chul, Kang Yong-hwan, Park Tae-hwan

Main article: Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Date	Time	Event
Monday, 4 December 2006	11:15	Heats
	19:25	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Australia	7:04.66	Fukuoka, Japan	21 July 2001
Asian Record	Japan	7:13.60	Montreal, Canada	29 July 2005
Games Record	Japan	7:20.59	Busan, South Korea	30 September 2002

Results

Legend

• DSQ — Disqualified

Heats

Rank	Heat	Team	Time	Notes
1	1	China (CHN)	7:24.05
		Zhang Enjian	1:51.67
		Chen Zuo	1:50.99
		Yu Chenglong	1:49.81
		Wu Peng	1:51.58
2	2	Japan (JPN)	7:26.01
		Yuji Sakurai	1:52.09
		Hiroaki Yamamoto	1:50.32
		Kenichi Doki	1:52.52
		Takeshi Matsuda	1:51.08
3	2	South Korea (KOR)	7:35.62
		Chung Yong	1:56.17
		Lim Nam-gyun	1:53.83
		Kang Yong-hwan	1:52.44
		Han Kyu-chul	1:53.18
4	1	Singapore (SIN)	7:42.74
		Sng Ju Wei	1:56.73
		Bryan Tay	1:55.47
		Gary Tan	1:54.93
		Marcus Cheah	1:55.61
5	1	Uzbekistan (UZB)	7:44.88
		Timur Irgashev	1:57.28
		Ibrahim Nazarov	1:56.23
		Petr Romashkin	1:55.71
		Petr Vasiliev	1:55.66
6	1	Philippines (PHI)	7:44.98
		Miguel Molina	1:53.21
		Enchong Dee	1:59.41
		James Walsh	1:55.62
		Ryan Arabejo	1:56.74
7	2	Kuwait (KUW)	7:45.26
		Waleed Al-Qahtani	1:56.69
		Mohammad Madwa	1:56.42
		Nawaf Al-Wazan	1:56.17
		Marzouq Al-Salem	1:55.98
8	2	Iran (IRI)	7:45.54
		Emin Noshadi	1:56.97
		Mohammad Bidarian	1:56.97
		Saeid Maleka Ashtiani	1:55.23
		Soheil Maleka Ashtiani	1:56.37
9	2	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	7:50.03
		Tang Sheng-chieh	1:55.64
		Tsai Kuo-chuan	1:56.07
		Chen Te-tung	1:56.20
		Yuan Ping	2:02.12
10	1	Hong Kong (HKG)	7:51.22
		Cheung Siu Hang	1:56.22
		Philip Yee	1:58.83
		Kevin Chu	1:59.04
		David Wong	1:57.13
11	2	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	8:04.66
		Vasilii Danilov	1:56.22
		Iurii Zakharov	1:59.62
		Timur Kartabaev	2:06.81
		Rashid Iunusov	2:02.01
12	1	India (IND)	8:10.12
		Virdhawal Khade	1:56.31
		Rehan Poncha	2:09.72
		Arjun Muralidharan	2:02.86
		Ankur Poseria	2:01.23
13	1	Qatar (QAT)	8:17.27
		Anas Abu Yousuf	1:58.72
		Moyssara El-Aarag	2:02.41
		Osama El-Aarag	2:08.29
		Ahmed Salamoun	2:07.85
14	2	Macau (MAC)	8:21.69
		Victor Wong	1:58.85
		Lei Chi Lon	2:09.39
		Lao Kuan Fong	2:04.11
		Antonio Tong	2:09.34

Final

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
	Japan (JPN)	7:14.86	GR
	Takeshi Matsuda	1:47.83
	Yuji Sakurai	1:48.73
	Takamitsu Kojima	1:49.94
	Daisuke Hosokawa	1:48.36
	China (CHN)	7:15.13
	Yu Chenglong	1:50.13
	Zhang Enjian	1:48.64
	Chen Zuo	1:49.45
	Zhang Lin	1:46.91
	South Korea (KOR)	7:23.61
	Lim Nam-gyun	1:51.51
	Han Kyu-chul	1:51.46
	Kang Yong-hwan	1:50.85
	Park Tae-hwan	1:49.79
4	Singapore (SIN)	7:39.61
	Bryan Tay	1:52.15
	Sng Ju Wei	1:56.69
	Gary Tan	1:55.29
	Marcus Cheah	1:55.48
5	Uzbekistan (UZB)	7:43.07
	Petr Romashkin	1:56.19
	Timur Irgashev	1:55.41
	Danil Bugakov	1:56.26
	Petr Vasiliev	1:55.21
6	Philippines (PHI)	7:44.93
	Miguel Molina	1:53.39
	Ryan Arabejo	1:57.06
	Enchong Dee	1:59.27
	James Walsh	1:55.21
7	Iran (IRI)	7:50.10
	Emin Noshadi	1:57.71
	Mohammad Bidarian	1:57.72
	Saeid Maleka Ashtiani	1:56.85
	Soheil Maleka Ashtiani	1:57.82
—	Kuwait (KUW)	DSQ
	Waleed Al-Qahtani
	Mohammad Madwa
	Nawaf Al-Wazan
	Marzouq Al-Salem

References

• Results