Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Date	31 July 2009
Teams	30
Winning time	6 minutes 58.55 seconds
Medalists
United States Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens, David Walters, Ryan Lochte, Daniel Madwed*, Davis Tarwater*, Peter Vanderkaay*    Russia Nikita Lobintsev, Mikhail Polischuk, Danila Izotov, Alexander Sukhorukov, Yevgeny Lagunov*, Sergei Perunin*    Australia Kenrick Monk, Robert Hurley, Tommaso D'Orsogna, Patrick Murphy, Nic Ffrost*, Kirk Palmer* * Swimmers who participated in the heats only
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The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 World Championships took place on July 31, 2009 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. 30 countries entered the event, of which 27 swam.

Records[]

The existing records when the event started were:

Record	Swimmer	Time	Location
World record	United States (USA) Michael Phelps (1:43.31) Ryan Lochte (1:44.28) Ricky Berens (1:46.29) Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68)	6:58.56	Beijing 2008
Championship record	United States (USA) Michael Phelps (1:45.36) Ryan Lochte (1:45.86) Klete Keller (1:46.31) Peter Vanderkaay (1:45.71)	7:03.24	Melbourne 2007

Results[]

Heats[]

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	3	4	United States	Ricky Berens (1:44.95) Daniel Madwed (1:45.63) Davis Tarwater (1:47.94) Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.78)	7:03.30
2	3	3	Japan	(1:46.75) Yoshihiro Okumura (1:44.73) (1:46.41) Takeshi Matsuda (1:45.41)	7:03.30	AS
3	1	4	Australia	Nic Ffrost (1:46.93) Robert Hurley (1:45.96) Kirk Palmer (1:46.65) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:46.02)	7:05.56
4	3	6	Germany	Paul Biedermann (1:44.02) (1:48.25) Yannick Lebherz (1:47.54) Clemens Rapp (1:45.81)	7:05.62
5	1	5	Great Britain	Robert Renwick (1:46.11) NR Andrew Hunter (1:46.85) David Davies (1:46.77) David Carry (1:46.38)	7:06.11
6	2	4	Russia	Yevgeny Lagunov (1:48.30) Mikhail Polischuk (1:44.93) Sergei Perunin (1:46.53) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:46.68)	7:06.44
7	2	3	South Africa	Jean Basson (1:45.99) Darian Townsend (1:46.22) Jan Albert Venter (1:47.78) Sebastien Rousseau (1:48.02)	7:08.01	AF
8	3	5	Italy	(1:47.81) Massimiliano Rosolino (1:48.26) Gianluca Maglia (1:45.60) Damiano Lestingi (1:46.40)	7:08.07
9	2	6	Hungary	László Cseh (1:45.78) NR Péter Bernek (1:47.88) (1:47.99) Gergő Kis (1:46.59)	7:08.24	NR
10	3	2	Brazil	Thiago Pereira (1:46.57) SA Rodrigo Castro (1:48.23) Lucas Salatta (1:48.48) Nicolas Oliveira (1:46.43)	7:09.71	SA
11	2	5	Canada	Colin Russell (1:47.81) Stefan Hirniak (1:45.62) Blake Worsley (1:48.71) Joel Greenshields (1:47.77)	7:09.91
12	1	6	Poland	Paweł Korzeniowski (1:46.59) Konrad Czerniak (1:47.49) Lukasz Wojt (1:48.25) (1:49.77)	7:12.10
13	2	2	Portugal	(1:49.30) (1:49.67) Diogo Carvalho (1:48.83) Fabio Pereira (1:48.68)	7:16.48	NR
14	2	0	Belgium	Glenn Surgeloose (1:49.66) Pholien Systermans (1:48.94) (1:49.48) Yoris Grandjean (1:49.35)	7:17.43	NR
15	1	3	China	Sun Yang (1:51.30) Xin Tong (1:50.27) Shi Tengfei (1:49.54) Chen Zuo (1:49.39)	7:20.50
16	1	2	Venezuela	Daniele Tirabassi (1:49.77) Roberto Gomez (1:51.31) Alejandro Gómez (1:51.03) Crox Acuna (1:48.45)	7:20.56	NR
17	1	9	Switzerland	David Karasek (1:49.46) Dominik Meichtry (1:48.67) (1:53.00) (1:51.50)	7:22.63	NR
18	3	7	Kazakhstan	Artur Dilman (1:54.76) Oleg Rabota (1:51.64) Stanislav Kuzmin (1:53.70) Dmitriy Gordiyenko (1:52.98)	7:33.08
19	1	7	Uzbekistan	Petr Romashkin (1:53.01) Danil Bugakov (1:53.47) (1:54.29) (1:53.94)	7:34.71
20	2	1	Chinese Taipei	Hsu Chi-Chieh (1:52.70) (1:53.37) (1:55.63) (1:55.13)	7:36.83
21	2	7	Singapore	Danny Yeo (1:57.33) (1:52.67) (1:53.98) (1:54.56)	7:38.54
22	1	1	India	(2:00.23) Virdhawal Khade (2:01.54) Rehan Poncha (2:04.98) (2:01.09)	8:07.84
23	2	8	United Arab Emirates	(2:00.57) (2:02.70) Mubarak Al Besher (2:04.63) Obaid Al Jasmi (1:59.99)	8:07.89	NR
24	3	8	Macau	(2:00.51) (2:02.52) (2:01.88) (2:03.72)	8:08.63
25	2	9	Malta	Neil Agius (1:59.92) dEdward Caruana Dingli (2:03.55) (2:04.69) (2:03.50)	8:11.66
26	3	0	Albania	(1:58.90) (2:14.21) (2:07.03) Sidni Hoxha (2:05.19)	8:25.33
27	1	8	Northern Mariana Islands	Eli Ebenezer Wong (2:02.46) (2:16.29) (2:15.07) (2:01.92)	8:35.74
–	1	0	Croatia		DNS
–	3	1	Kuwait		DNS
–	3	9	Czech Republic		DNS

Final[]

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Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
	4	United States	Michael Phelps   (1:44.49) Ricky Berens   (1:44.13) David Walters   (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte   (1:44.46)	6:58.55	WR
	7	Russia	Nikita Lobintsev (1:45.10) Mikhail Polischuk (1:45.42) Danila Izotov (1:44.48) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:44.15)	6:59.15	ER
	3	Australia	Kenrick Monk (1:46.00) Robert Hurley (1:46.47) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:44.82) Patrick Murphy (1:44.36)	7:01.65	OC
4	5	Japan	Sho Uchida (1:45.90) Yoshihiro Okumura (1:45.83) (1:45.99) Takeshi Matsuda (1:44.54)	7:02.26	AS
5	6	Germany	Paul Biedermann (1:42.81) (1:47.65) Yannick Lebherz (1:47.31) Clemens Rapp (1:45.42)	7:03.19	NR
6	8	Italy	Emiliano Brembilla (1:46.29) NR Gianluca Maglia (1:45.85) Marco Belotti (1:45.46) Filippo Magnini (1:45.88)	7:03.48	NR
7	2	Great Britain	Robert Renwick (1:45.99) NR (1:47.18) David Carry (1:46.41) Ross Davenport (1:46.09)	7:05.67	NR
8	1	South Africa	Jean Basson (1:46.13) Darian Townsend (1:46.81) Jan Albert Venter (1:47.13) Sebastien Rousseau (1:48.44)	7:08.51

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

References[]