2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay ; at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	62 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	3:03.03 WR
Medalists
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The Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2018.^[1]

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	United States	3:03.30	Manchester	19 December 2009
Championship record	France	3:03.78	Doha	3 December 2014

The following new records were set during this competition

Date	Event	Nation	Time	Record
11 December	Final	United States	3:03.03	WR, CR

The heats were started on 11 December at 12:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Russia	Evgeny Rylov (46.09) Ivan Kuzmenko (46.58) Mikhail Vekovishchev (46.32) Ivan Girev (46.17)	3:05.16	Q
2	1	7	Brazil	Matheus Santana (47.41) Marcelo Chierighini (46.52) Breno Correia (45.32) César Cielo (46.45)	3:05.70	Q, NR
3	1	6	United States	Ryan Held (45.82) Kyle DeCoursey (46.92) Michael Jensen (46.41) Matt Grevers (46.57)	3:05.72	Q
4	2	3	Italy	Santo Condorelli (47.23) Lorenzo Zazzeri (46.99) Davide Nardini (47.44) Alessandro Miressi (46.52)	3:08.18	Q
5	1	5	Japan	Katsumi Nakamura (46.54) Kaiya Seki (47.38) Kosuke Matsui (47.18) Fuyu Yoshida (47.16)	3:08.26	Q
6	2	4	Australia	Louis Townsend (47.03) Alexander Graham (46.94) Jack Gerrard (46.97) Thomas Fraser-Holmes (47.62)	3:08.56	Q
7	2	2	Belarus	Yauhen Tsurkin (47.85) Hryhory Pekarski (47.45) Mikita Tsmyh (48.81) Artsiom Machekin (47.41)	3:11.52	Q, NR
8	2	5	China	Hou Yujie (48.34) Cao Jiwen (47.48) He Junyi (48.17) Yu Hexin (47.98)	3:11.97	Q
9	2	6	Turkey	Hüseyin Emre Sakçı (47.97) Iskender Baslakov (48.28) Yalım Acımış (48.46) Kemal Arda Gürdal (47.55)	3:12.26	NR
10	1	2	Portugal	Miguel Nascimento (47.61) NR Gabriel Lopes (48.14) Diogo Carvalho (50.33) Alexis Santos (49.48)	3:15.56	NR
11	2	7	New Zealand	Daniel Hunter (48.06) Andrew Jeffcoat (48.92) Matthew Hyde (50.50) Wilrich Coetzee (48.98)	3:16.46
12	1	3	Chinese Taipei	Lin Chien-liang (49.46) Huang Yen-hsin (49.00) Chuang Mu-lun (48.84) An Ting-yao (49.31)	3:16.61
13	2	1	Bulgaria	Yordan Yanchev (49.02) Svetlozar Nikolov (49.88) Kaloyan Bratanov (50.10) Antani Ivanov (50.51)	3:19.51	NR

The final was held on 11 December at 20:52.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	3	United States	Caeleb Dressel (45.66) Blake Pieroni (45.75) Michael Chadwick (45.86) Ryan Held (45.76)	3:03.03	WR
	4	Russia	Vladislav Grinev (46.38) Sergey Fesikov (46.21) Vladimir Morozov (45.06) Kliment Kolesnikov (45.46)	3:03.11	ER
	5	Brazil	Matheus Santana (46.83) Marcelo Chierighini (46.37) César Cielo (46.34) Breno Correia (45.61)	3:05.15	NR
4	6	Italy	Santo Condorelli (46.76) Alessandro Miressi (46.03) Marco Orsi (46.41) Lorenzo Zazzeri (46.00)	3:05.20	NR
5	7	Australia	Cameron McEvoy (46.28) Louis Townsend (46.85) Jack Gerrard (46.86) Alexander Graham (46.50)	3:06.49
6	2	Japan	Katsumi Nakamura (46.22 NR) Kaiya Seki (46.87) Kosuke Matsui (46.92) Fuyu Yoshida (47.86)	3:07.87
7	8	China	Hou Yujie (48.09) Cao Jiwen (46.96) He Junyi (47.54) Yu Hexin (47.96)	3:10.55	NR
8	1	Belarus	Yauhen Tsurkin (47.76) Hryhory Pekarski (47.07) Viktar Staselovich (48.33) Artsiom Machekin (47.43)	3:10.59	NR