Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×100m Freestyle Relay at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 20
Nations	30
Winning time	3 minutes 14.06 seconds
Medalists
Russia    USA    France
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The Men's 4×100m Freestyle Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 20, 2003. Preliminary^[1] heats swam in the morning session that day, with the top eight teams advancing to swim again in the Final^[2] that evening.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 3:13.67 swum by Australia on September 16, 2000 in Sydney, Australia
• CR: 3:14.10 swum by Australia on July 22, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Russia	Andrei Kapralov (49.21), Ivan Usov (48.69), Denis Pimankov (48.45), Alexander Popov (47.71)	3:14.06	CR
2	USA	Scott Tucker (49.57), Neil Walker (48.22), Ryan Wochomurka (49.12), Jason Lezak (47.89)	3:14.80
3	France	Romain Barnier (49.75), Julien Sicot (49.41), Fabien Gilot (49.47), Frederick Bousquet (47.03)	3:15.66
4	Australia	Ashley Callus (49.19), Todd Pearson (49.05), Adam Pine (49.45), Ian Thorpe (47.98)	3:15.67
5	Germany	(50.01), Torsten Spanneberg (48.14), Lars Conrad (49.12), Stefan Herbst (48.71)	3:15.98
6	Italy	Lorenzo Vismara (49.46), Christian Galenda (49.08), Michele Scarica (49.32), Filippo Magnini (48.13)	3:15.99
7	Canada	Yannick Lupien (50.16), Riley Janes (49.01), Mike Mintenko (48.78), Brent Hayden (48.88)	3:16.83
8	South Africa	Darian Townsend (50.37), Roland Schoeman (49.24), Lyndon Ferns (50.26), Ryk Neethling (48.92)	3:18.79

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat/Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	H2 L7		Andrei Kapralov, Ivan Usov, Denis Pimankov	3:16.17	q
2	H4 L4		Randall Bal, Nate Dusing Ryan Wochomurka, Neil Walker	3:16.98	q
3	H3 L3		Romain Barnier, Julien Sicot Fabien Gilot, Frédérick Bousquet	3:17.51	q
4	H2 L4		Lars Conrad, Torsten Spanneberg , Stefan Herbst	3:17.53	q
5	H2 L5		Filippo Magnini, Michele Scarica Klaus Lanzarini, Christian Galenda	3:17.66	q
6	H4 L5		Yannick Lupien, Mike Mintenko Riley Janes, Brent Hayden	3:18.51	q
7	H2 L3		Darian Townsend, Roland Schoeman Lyndon Ferns, Ryk Neethling	3:18.73	q
8	H3 L4		Todd Pearson, Antony Matkovich, Adam Pine	3:18.79	q
9	H3 L5		Eric la Fleur, Stefan Nystrand Lars Frölander, Mattias Ohlin	3:19.22
10	H4 L3		Johan Kenkhuis, Klaas Erik Zwering Gijs Damen, Ewout Holst	3:19.36
11	H4 L6		Chris Cozens, Ross Davenport, Simon Burnett	3:20.46
12	H3 L2		Gustavo Borges, Jader Souza Fernando Scherer, Carlos Jayme	3:20.49
13	H2 L1		Vyacheslav Shyrshov, Oleksandr Volynets Denys Syzonenko,	3:21.16
14	H3 L7		Rolandas Gimbutis, Saulius Binevičius Paulius Viktoravičius, Vytautas Janušaitis	3:21.81
15	H2 L6		Mario Delač, Duje Draganja Ivan Mladina, Igor Čerenšek	3:22.42
16	H3 L6		Shaohua Huang, Yu Liu Hao Jin, Zuo Chen	3:22.95
17	H4 L2		Philipp Gilgen, Karel Novy Dominik Meichtry, Christoph Bühler	3:22.97
18	H4 L1		Alexandros Tsoltos, Spyridon Bitsakis Apostolos Tsagkarakis, Dimitros Manganas	3:23.03
19	H2 L2		Min Sung, Min Suk Kim , Kyu Chul Han	3:24.38
20	H4 L8		Luis Rojas, Oswaldo Quevedo Albert Subirats,	3:25.92
21	H2 L8		Danil Haustov, ,	3:27.42
22	H3 L8		Ravil Nachaev, Alexander Agafonov Oleg Pukhnaty, Petr Vasilev	3:29.04
23	H4 L7		Nuno Laurentino, Luis Monteiro Simão Morgado, Pedro Silva	3:29.09
24	H3 L1		Peter Mankoč, Blaž Medvešek Bojan Zdešar, Matjaž Markič	3:29.51
25	H1 L4		, Terrence Haynes , Martyn Forde	3:35.46
26	H1 L5		, Wing Fu ,	3:35.82
27	H1 L7		, Musa Bakare Eric Williams, Gentle Offoin	3:42.78
28	H1 L2		Bertrand Bristol, , Kenny Roberts	3:46.76
29	H1 L3		, ,	3:48.65
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