Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 May 2016.

Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	16 May
Competitors	65 from 15 nations
Teams	15
Winning time	3:13.48
Medalists
William Meynard Florent Manaudou Fabien Gilot Clément Mignon   France   Luca Dotto Luca Leonardi Jonathan Boffa Filippo Magnini   Italy   Glenn Surgeloose Jasper Aerents Dieter Dekoninck Pieter Timmers   Belgium

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	United States	3:08.24	Beijing	11 August 2008
European record	France	3:08.32	Beijing	11 August 2008
Championship record	France	3:11.64	Berlin	18 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 12:07.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	1	France	Clement Mignon (48.88) William Meynard (49.59) Fabien Gilot (48.37) Lorys Bourelly (49.38)	3:16.22	Q
2	1	3	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.40) Giuseppe Guttuso (49.78) Jonathan Boffa (49.07) Luca Leonardi (49.17)	3:16.42	Q
3	2	2	Belgium	Louis Croenen (50.07) Jasper Aerents (48.70) Glenn Surgeloose (48.67) Dieter Dekoninck (49.09)	3:16.53	Q
4	2	8	Romania	Marius Radu (49.28) Daniel Macovei (49.43) Alin Coste (49.14) Norbert Trandafir (48.69)	3:16.54	Q
5	2	6	Greece	Odyssefs Meladinis (49.61) Apostolos Christou (49.26) Christos Katrantzis (49.41) Kristian Golomeev (48.54)	3:16.82	Q
6	2	5	Hungary	Péter Holoda (49.58) Krisztián Takács (49.76) Richárd Bohus (48.94) Dominik Kozma (48.87)	3:17.15	Q
7	2	1	Spain	Aitor Martinez Rodriguez (49.63) Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate (49.09) Bruno Ortiz-Cañavate (50.08) Oskitz Aguilar Urtxegi (49.51)	3:18.31	Q
8	1	2	Great Britain	Robert Renwick (49.78) Benjamin Proud (50.52) Ieuan Lloyd (49.38) Duncan Scott (48.78)	3:18.46	Q
9	1	7	Turkey	Huseyin Emre Sakci (50.28) Doga Celik (49.40) Iskender Baslakov (50.06) Kemal Arda Gürdal (48.92)	3:18.66
10	1	4	Sweden	Christoffer Carlsen (49.88) Isak Eliasson (49.06) Robin Andreasson (49.57) Daniel Forndal (50.19)	3:18.70
11	1	6	Lithuania	Mindaugas Sadauskas (49.64) Simonas Bilis (48.51) Tadas Duskinas (50.35) Povilas Strazdas (50.28)	3:18.78
12	2	3	Poland	Paweł Korzeniowski (49.47) Kacper Majchrzak (48.92) Filip Wypych (50.44) Oskar Krupecki (50.38)	3:19.21
13	1	5	Israel	Alexi Konovalov (50.16) Or Sabatier (49.50) Ziv Kalontarov (50.46) Tom Kremer (49.35)	3:19.47
14	2	7	Switzerland	Alexandre Haldemann (49.87) Erik van Dooren (50.53) Aleksi Schmid (49.85) Nils Liess (50.15)	3:20.40
15	2	4	Estonia	Ralf Tribuntsov (51.39) Andri Aedma (50.62) Kregor Zirk (49.61) Pjotr Degtjarjov (48.90)	3:20.52

Final

The final was held at 19:26.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	France	William Meynard (49.57) Florent Manaudou (47.64) Fabien Gilot (48.26) Clement Mignon (48.01)	3:13.48
	5	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.03) Luca Leonardi (48.47) Jonathan Boffa (49.21) Filippo Magnini (48.58)	3:14.29
	3	Belgium	Glenn Surgeloose (48.75) Jasper Aerents (49.31) Dieter Dekoninck (48.87) Pieter Timmers (47.37)	3:14.30
4	2	Greece	Odyssefs Meladinis (49.60) Christos Katrantzis (48.65) Apostolos Christou (48.13) Kristian Golomeev (48.04)	3:14.42
5	7	Hungary	Péter Holoda (49.91) Krisztián Takács (49.41) Richárd Bohus (48.64) Dominik Kozma (48.59)	3:16.55
6	6	Romania	Marius Radu (49.08) Robert Glință (49.24) Alin Coste (49.91) Norbert Trandafir (48.85)	3:17.08
7	8	Great Britain	Robert Renwick (49.79) Duncan Scott (48.31) Ieuan Lloyd (49.70) Benjamin Proud (49.33)	3:17.13
8	1	Spain	Markel Alberdi (49.76) Aitor Martinez Rodriguez (49.63) Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate (48.62) Oskitz Aguilar Urtxegi (49.20)	3:17.21