Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay ; at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 24, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors	72 from 16 nations
Winning time	3:11.00
Medalists
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The men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24. The heats and final took place July 24.

Records edit

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps (47.51) Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02) Cullen Jones (47.65) Jason Lezak (46.06)	United States	3:08.24	Beijing	August 11, 2008
Championship record	Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)	United States	3:09.21	Rome	July 26, 2009

Results edit

Heats edit

17 teams participated in 3 heats, qualified teams are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	4	France	Alain Bernard (48.37) Jérémy Stravius (47.87) William Meynard (48.23) Fabien Gilot (47.62)	3:12.09	Q
2	3	4	United States	Garrett Weber-Gale (48.49) Ryan Lochte (48.28) Douglas Robison (48.62) David Walters (48.11)	3:13.50	Q
3	2	4	Russia	Vladimir Morozov (49.07) Evgeny Lagunov (48.12) Danila Izotov (48.28) Sergey Fesikov (48.14)	3:13.61	Q
4	3	3	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.70) Marco Orsi (48.30) Michele Santucci (48.67) Filippo Magnini (47.94)	3:13.61	Q
5	3	5	Australia	Kyle Richardson (48.92) Matthew Abood (47.91) James Roberts (48.25) Eamon Sullivan (48.71)	3:13.79	Q
6	1	3	Germany	Steffen Deibler (49.01) Markus Deibler (48.06) Christoph Fildebrandt (48.75) Marco di Carli (48.41)	3:14.23	Q, NR
7	2	3	South Africa	Graeme Moore (49.61) Darian Townsend (48.12) Gideon Louw (48.11) Leith Shankland (48.88)	3:14.72	Q
8	2	5	Great Britain	Adam Brown (49.05) Liam Tancock (48.51) Grant Turner (48.79) Simon Burnett (49.00)	3:15.35	Q
9	3	2	Brazil	Bruno Fratus (49.06) Nicolas Oliveira (48.20) Marcos Macedo (50.32) Marcelo Chierighini (48.70)	3:16.28
10	1	6	Japan	Takuro Fujii (48.88) Shogo Hihara (48.83) Yoshihiro Okumura (49.63) Takeshi Matsuda (49.29)	3:16.63
11	1	5	Sweden	Stefan Nystrand (49.49) Petter Stymne (48.65) Lars Frölander (48.79) Robin Andreasson (50.14)	3:17.07
12	2	6	Canada	Brent Hayden (48.77) Colin Russell (49.20) Blake Worsley (49.28) Dominique Massie-Martel (50.10)	3:17.35
13	3	6	China	Lü Zhiwu (49.19) Jiang Haiqi (50.14) He Jianbin (48.50) Zhang Enjian (49.73)	3:17.56
14	3	7	Venezuela	Crox Ernesto Acuna (50.10) Octavio Alesi (50.06) Daniele Tirabassi (49.53) Cristian Quintero (49.49)	3:19.18
15	2	7	Slovenia	Peter Mankoč (49.95) Robert Zbogar (50.96) Jan Karel Petric (53.66) Matjaž Markič (1:05.65)	3:40.22
–	1	2	South Korea			DNS
–	2	2	Belgium	Yoris Grandjean (49.74) Glenn Surgeloose (49.71) Jasper Aerents (48.57) Pieter Timmers		DSQ

Final edit

The final was held at 19:20.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time
	2	Australia	James Magnussen (47.49) Matthew Targett (47.87) Matthew Abood (47.92) Eamon Sullivan (47.72)	3:11.00
	4	France	Alain Bernard (48.75) Jérémy Stravius (47.78) William Meynard (47.39) Fabien Gilot (47.22)	3:11.14
	5	United States	Michael Phelps (48.08) Garrett Weber-Gale (48.33) Jason Lezak (48.15) Nathan Adrian (47.40)	3:11.96
4	6	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.56) Marco Orsi (48.51) Michele Santucci (48.01) Filippo Magnini (47.31)	3:12.39
5	3	Russia	Evgeny Lagunov (48.89) Andrey Grechin (48.56) Nikita Lobintsev (47.45) Sergey Fesikov (48.09)	3:12.99
6	1	South Africa	Graeme Moore (48.15) Darian Townsend (47.76) Gideon Louw (47.91) Leith Shankland (49.56)	3:13.38
7	7	Germany	Markus Deibler (49.24) Benjamin Starke (49.22) Christoph Fildebrandt (48.45) Marco di Carli (48.10)	3:15.01
8	8	Great Britain	Adam Brown (49.05) Liam Tancock (48.60) Grant Turner (48.86) Simon Burnett (48.52)	3:15.03