2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	9 December (heats and final)
Competitors	76 from 19 nations
Teams	19
Winning time	1:24.32
Medalists
Aleksei Brianskiy Nikita Lobintsev Aleksandr Popkov Vladimir Morozov Kirill Prigoda    Russia   Blake Pieroni Michael Chadwick Tom Shields Michael Andrew    United States   Kosuke Matsui Kenta Ito Shinri Shioura Junya Koga    Japan
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2016 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×50 m	freestyle	medley
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The Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 December 2016.^[1]

Records[]

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Russia	1:22.60	Doha	6 December 2014

Results[]

Heats[]

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	3	2	United States	(21.55) Michael Chadwick (20.81) Michael Andrew (21.51) (21.14)	1:25.01	Q
2	3	0	Russia	Kirill Prigoda (22.10) Aleksei Brianskiy (21.04) Nikita Lobintsev (21.23) Aleksandr Popkov (20.96)	1:25.33	Q
3	3	1	Japan	Kosuke Matsui (21.61) Kenta Ito (21.02) Shinri Shioura (21.49) Junya Koga (21.39)	1:25.51	Q
4	2	4	Netherlands	Nyls Korstanje (21.89) Jesse Puts (20.99) Kyle Stolk (21.56) Ben Schwietert (21.76)	1:26.20	Q
5	3	1	South Africa	Douglas Erasmus (21.79) Brad Tandy (21.22) Chad Le Clos (21.23) Eben Vorster (22.71)	1:26.95	Q
6	2	2	Belarus	Yauhen Tsurkin (21.96) (21.33) Viktar Staselovich (22.12) Artsiom Machekin (21.61)	1:27.02	Q
7	3	4	France	(22.08) Clément Mignon (21.27) (22.72) Mehdy Metella (21.36)	1:27.43	Q
8	2	5	China	Li Zhuhao (22.12) Lin Yongqing (21.68) (21.94) Yu Hexin (21.95)	1:27.69	Q
9	2	6	Sweden	(22.18) (21.84) Axel Pettersson (21.72) (22.00)	1:27.74
10	1	8	Canada	Javier Acevedo (22.46) Yuri Kisil (21.42) (22.05) Evan van Moerkerke (22.19)	1:28.12
11	1	6	Hungary	(21.71) Dávid Földházi (21.41) Richárd Márton (22.52) Márton Barta (22.80)	1:29.44
12	2	8	Paraguay	Charles Hockin (22.20) Benjamin Hockin (21.55) (23.23) (23.48)	1:30.46
13	3	7	Iceland	(22.87) (22.82) (22.95) (22.43)	1:31.07
14	2	3	Singapore	(22.61) (22.69) (23.10) (23.19)	1:31.59
15	1	4	Hong Kong	(22.87) (22.69) (22.24) (22.86)	1:31.62
16	2	7	Macau	(23.53) (23.48) (24.14) (22.68)	1:33.83
17	2	1	Papua New Guinea	(24.87) Ashley Seeto (24.40) (23.18) Ryan Pini (22.32)	1:34.77
18	1	3	Philippines	(24.25) (23.41) (24.48) (23.50)	1:35.64
19	3	6	Tanzania	Hilal Hemed Hilal (23.81) (25.01) (28.57) (28.51)	1:45.90
	1	0	Kenya			DNS
	1	2	Angola			DNS
	1	5	Uzbekistan			DNS
	1	7	Seychelles			DNS
	2	0	Puerto Rico			DNS
	3	3	Dominican Republic			DNS
	3	5	Thailand			DNS
	3	8	Albania			DNS

Final[]

The final was held at 18:30.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	5	Russia	Aleksei Brianskiy (21.70) Nikita Lobintsev (21.06) Aleksandr Popkov (20.85) Vladimir Morozov (20.71)	1:24.32
	4	United States	(21.73) Blake Pieroni (21.14) Michael Chadwick (21.02) Tom Shields (20.58)	1:24.47
	3	Japan	Kosuke Matsui (21.81) Kenta Ito (20.96) Shinri Shioura (20.60) Junya Koga (21.14)	1:24.51
4	1	France	Clément Mignon (21.38) Jérémy Stravius (20.94) Mehdy Metella (21.18) (21.19)	1:24.69
5	6	Netherlands	Nyls Korstanje (21.75) Jesse Puts (20.71) Ben Schwietert (21.55) Kyle Stolk (21.21)	1:25.22
6	2	South Africa	Brad Tandy (21.34) Chad Le Clos (20.83) Douglas Erasmus (21.21) Eben Vorster (22.23)	1:25.61
7	7	Belarus	Yauhen Tsurkin (21.67) (21.27) Viktar Staselovich (22.15) Artsiom Machekin (21.43)	1:26.52
8	8	China	Li Zhuhao (22.14) Lin Yongqing (21.39) (22.02) Yu Hexin (21.21)	1:26.76

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