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

Men's 4×100m Medley Relay at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	27 July (prelims; final)
Winning time	3 minutes 31.54 seconds
Medalists
USA    Russia    Japan
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The Men's 4×100 Medley Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 27 July 2003 at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats^[1] swam during the day's morning session, with the top-8 teams advancing to swim again in a Final^[2] heat in the day's evening session.

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

• WR: 3:33.48 swum by the USA on August 29, 2002 in Yokohama, Japan
• CR: 3:35.35 swum by Australia on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	4	USA	Aaron Peirsol (53.71) Brendan Hansen (59.61) Ian Crocker (50.39) Jason Lezak (47.83)	3:31.54	WR
2	6	Russia	Arkady Vyatchanin (54.87) Roman Ivanovski (1:00.18) Igor Marchenko (51.72) Alexander Popov (47.95)	3:34.72
3	5	Japan	Tomomi Morita (54.93) Kosuke Kitajima (59.11) Takashi Yamamoto (52.24) Daisuke Hosokawa (49.84)	3:36.12
4	3	France	Simon Dufour (55.53) Hugues Duboscq (1:00.12) Franck Esposito (52.04) Frédérick Bousquet (48.70)	3:36.39
5	7	Netherlands	Klaas-Erik Zwering (56.56) Thijs van Valkengoed (1:01.67) Joris Keizer (52.19) Pieter van den Hoogenband (46.70)	3:37.12
6	2	Ukraine	Volodymyr Nikolaychuk (55.95) Oleg Lisogor (1:00.35) Andriy Serdinov (51.30) Vyacheslav Shyrshov (49.68)	3:37.28
7	1	Canada	Riley Janes (55.39) Morgan Knabe (1:01.04) Mike Mintenko (52.23) Brent Hayden (49.28)	3:37.94
8	8	Great Britain	Gregor Tait (55.40) James Gibson (59.80) Todd Cooper (53.91) Chris Cozens (49.10)	3:38.21

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat/Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	H4 L4		Randall Bal, Ed Moses Michael Phelps, Neil Walker	3:34.80	q, CR
2	H4 L3		Tomomi Morita, Kosuke Kitajima Takashi Yamamoto, Daisuke Hosokawa	3:37.08	q
3	H3 L3		Simon Dufour, Hugues Duboscq Franck Esposito, Frédérick Bousquet	3:37.57	q
4	H2 L4		Evgueni Alechine, Dmitry Komornikov Evgueni Korotychkine, Denis Pimankov	3:38.14	q
5	H3 L5		Volodymyr Nikolaychuk, Oleg Lisogor Andrii Serdinov, Vyacheslav Shyrshov	3:38.50	q
6	H4 L1		Klaas Erik Zwering, Thijs van Valkengoed Joris Keizer, Pieter van den Hoogenband	3:38.81	q
7	H2 L3		Riley Janes, Morgan Knabe Mike Mintenko, Brent Hayden	3:39.41	q
8	H4 L6		Gregor Tait, James Gibson Todd Cooper, Chris Cozens	3:39.80	q
9	H2 L5		Péter Horváth, Károly Güttler Zsolt Gáspár, Attila Zubor	3:39.83
10	H4 L7		Blaž Medvešek, Emil Tahirovič Peter Mankoč, Jernej Godec	3:40.79
11	H4 L5		, Mark Warnecke Johannes Dietrich, Torsten Spanneberg	3:41.33
12	H2 L6		Jani Sievinen, Jarno Pihlava Tero Välimaa, Matti Rajakylä	3:41.49
13	H3 L6		, Martin Gustavsson Lars Frölander, Stefan Nystrand	3:42.63
14	H4 L8		Darius Grigalionis, Vytautas Janušaitis Rimvydas Šalčius, Paulius Viktoravičius	3:43.63
15	H4 L2		Gordan Kožulj, Vanja Rogulj Krešimir Čač, Igor Čerenšek	3:43.73
16	H3 L2		Ouyang Kunpeng, Haibo Wang Hao Jin, Zuo Chen	3:43.80
17	H2 L2		Paulo Machado, Eduardo Fischer Kaio Almeida, Gustavo Borges	3:44.61
18	H3 L7		Karel Novy, Remo Lutolf Philipp Gilgen, Dominik Meichtry	3:45.76
19	H1 L4		, , Danil Haustov	3:52.49
20	H3 L8		, Chi Kin Tam ,	3:57.51
21	H1 L3		, ,	4:04.45
22	H1 L6		, Eric Williams Musa Bakare, Gentle Offoin	4:09.17
-	H2 L1		Gerhard Zandberg, Roland Schoeman, Ryk Neethling	DQ
-	H3 L4		Josh Watson, Jim Piper Adam Pine, Ian Thorpe	DQ
-	H3 L1		Raouf Benabid, Sofiane Daid Aghiles Slimani, Salim Iles	DQ
-	-	Italy		DNS
-	-	Uzbekistan		DNS
-	-	Cote d'Ivoire		DNS

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