2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 4 December.

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	3 December
Competitors	60 from 15 nations
Winning time	6:51.68
Medalists
Conor Dwyer Ryan Lochte Matt McLean Tyler Clary Michael Klueh Michael Weiss Darian Townsend   United States   Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo Marco Belotti Nicolangelo Di Fabio Filippo Magnini   Italy   Myles Brown Sebastien Rousseau Chad le Clos Leith Shankland Calvyn Justus   South Africa

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Russia	6:49.04	Dubai	16 December 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:54.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	6	Italy	Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo (1:43.45) Marco Belotti (1:43.97) Nicolangelo Di Fabio (1:43.84) Filippo Magnini (1:43.44)	6:54.70	Q
2	1	5	United States	Matt McLean (1:43.65) Michael Klueh (1:43.94) Michael Weiss (1:44.19) Darian Townsend (1:43.25)	6:55.03	Q
3	1	7	Brazil	João de Lucca (1:42.02) Gustavo Godoy (1:44.22) Fernando Santos (1:44.24) Gabriel Ogawa (1:45.02)	6:55.50	Q, SA
4	1	1	Russia	Artem Lobuzov (1:43.85) Dmitrii Ermakov (1:44.39) Aleksandr Krasnykh (1:44.41) Viacheslav Andrusenko (1:44.07)	6:56.72	Q
5	2	7	Belgium	Emmanuel Vanluchene (1:44.74) Glenn Surgeloose (1:43.57) Louis Croenen (1:44.61) Pieter Timmers (1:43.98)	6:56.90	Q
6	1	2	South Africa	Myles Brown (1:43.41) Leith Shankland (1:44.54) Calvyn Justus (1:45.89) Sebastien Rousseau (1:44.19)	6:58.03	Q
7	2	3	Denmark	Daniel Skaaning (1:45.47) Frederik Pedersen (1:45.62) Frans Johannessen (1:44.43) Anders Nielsen (1:43.13)	6:58.65	Q
8	2	1	Germany	Markus Deibler (1:44.60) Clemens Rapp (1:44.14) Florian Vogel (1:44.99) Tim Wallburger (1:45.67)	6:59.40	Q
9	1	4	Japan	Yuki Kobori (1:45.43) Reo Sakata (1:44.28) Tsubasa Amai (1:45.66) Katsumi Nakamura (1:44.06)	6:59.43	AS
10	2	2	Austria	David Brandl (1:45.42) Felix Auboeck (1:43.90) Sebastian Steffan (1:46.03) Jakub Maly (1:47.35)	7:02.70
11	1	3	Czech Republic	Jan Šefl (1:45.41) David Kunčar (1:46.55) Pavel Janeček (1:45.81) Jan Micka (1:47.72)	7:05.49
12	2	6	China	Hou Mingda (1:48.18) Jiang Yuhui (1:47.40) Jiang Tiansheng (1:51.86) Lin Yongqing (1:45.20)	7:12.64
13	2	5	Argentina	Guido Buscaglia (1:49.69) Martín Naidich (1:50.04) Matías Aguilera (1:47.19) Federico Grabich (1:46.61)	7:13.53
14	2	0	Paraguay	Ben Hockin (1:44.44) Charles Hockin (1:49.38) Matías López (1:50.94) Max Abreu (1:51.20)	7:15.96
15	2	4	Philippines	Fahad Alkhaldi (1:48.86) Axel Ngui (1:52.90) Jethro Chua (1:53.31) Jessie Lacuna (1:50.39)	7:25.46
—	1	8	Serbia		DNS
—	2	8	Australia		DNS

Final

The final was held at 20:00.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	5	United States	Conor Dwyer (1:43.20) Ryan Lochte (1:42.42) Matt McLean (1:43.20) Tyler Clary (1:42.86)	6:51.68
	4	Italy	Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo (1:42.77) Marco Belotti (1:43.98) Nicolangelo Di Fabio (1:42.98) Filippo Magnini (1:42.07)	6:51.80
	7	South Africa	Myles Brown (1:43.25) Sebastien Rousseau (1:43.96) Chad le Clos (1:40.61) Leith Shankland (1:44.31)	6:52.13
4	2	Belgium	Louis Croenen (1:44.91) Glenn Surgeloose (1:43.29) Emmanuel Vanluchene (1:42.33) Pieter Timmers (1:42.13)	6:52.66
5	3	Brazil	João de Lucca (1:41.85 SA) Gustavo Godoy (1:44.82) Fernando Santos (1:43.89) Gabriel Ogawa (1:43.97)	6:54.53	SA
6	8	Germany	Markus Deibler (1:43.68) Florian Vogel (1:44.24) Tim Wallburger (1:45.81) Clemens Rapp (1:43.67)	6:57.40
7	1	Denmark	Anders Nielsen (1:44.49) Frans Johannessen (1:45.34) Frederik Pedersen (1:45.60) Daniel Skaaning (1:45.35)	7:00.78
DSQ	6	Russia	Mikhail Polischuk (1:43.62) Danila Izotov (1:40.65) Artem Lobuzov (1:42.87) Viacheslav Andrusenko (1:44.82)	6:51.96