Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 29, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors	72 from 16 nations
Winning time	7:02.67
Medalists
Michael Phelps Peter Vanderkaay Ricky Berens Ryan Lochte    United States   Yannick Agnel Grégory Mallet Jérémy Stravius Fabien Gilot    France   Wang Shun Zhang Lin Li Yunqi Sun Yang    China
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The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 29 with the heats and final.

Records[]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46)	United States	6:58.55	Rome	July 31, 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

16 nations participated in 3 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	3	4	United States	David Walters (1:48.01) Conor Dwyer (1:47.31) Ricky Berens (1:46.99) Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.53)	7:08.84	Q
2	3	3	Japan	Takeshi Matsuda (1:47.57) Yoshihiro Okumura (1:47.64) Sho Uchida (1:48.57) (1:46.68)	7:10.46	Q
3	2	5	France	Jérémy Stravius (1:47.49) Grégory Mallet (1:47.98) Sébastien Rouault (1:49.61) Yannick Agnel (1:46.52)	7:11.60	Q
4	1	5	Australia	Kenrick Monk (1:48.77) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:48.14) (1:47.19) Ryan Napoleon (1:47.70)	7:11.80	Q
5	2	6	Italy	Gianluca Maglia (1:49.00) Filippo Magnini (1:46.97) Marco Belotti (1:48.17) Samuel Pizzetti (1:48.04)	7:12.18	Q
6	1	4	China	Wang Shun (1:48.04) Zhang Lin (1:46.98) (1:49.90) Li Yunqi (1:47.27)	7:12.19	Q
7	2	3	Great Britain	David Carry (1:47.96) Ross Davenport (1:48.08) (1:49.26) Robert Renwick (1:47.85)	7:13.15	Q
8	3	5	Germany	Tim Wallburger (1:48.05) Yannick Lebherz (1:49.46) Clemens Rapp (1:49.34) Paul Biedermann (1:46.46)	7:13.31	Q
9	2	7	Austria	David Brandl (1:48.95) Christian Scherübl (1:48.35) Markus Rogan (1:48.04) Dinko Jukić (1:48.00)	7:13.34
10	1	3	Canada	Blake Worsley (1:48.69) Colin Russell (1:49.20) (1:48.05) Stefan Hirniak (1:47.79)	7:13.73
11	2	4	Russia	Danila Izotov (1:48.04) Yevgeny Lagunov (1:48.60) Artem Lobuzov (1:48.76) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:48.72)	7:14.12
12	3	6	South Africa	Darian Townsend (1:47.98) Jean Basson (1:48.67) Jan Venter (1:49.85) Sebastien Rousseau (1:49.15)	7:15.65
13	1	6	Belgium	Dieter Dekoninck (1:49.77) Glenn Surgeloose (1:49.07) Mathieu Fonteyn (1:50.77) Pieter Timmers (1:47.78)	7:17.39	NR
14	1	2	Brazil	Nicolas Oliveira (1:49.47) André Schultz (1:50.32) Rodrigo Castro (1:49.72) João de Lucca (1:48.93)	7:18.44
15	3	2	Venezuela	Daniele Tirabassi (1:49.48) Crox Acuña (1:49.80) Ricardo Monasterio (1:54.13) Cristian Quintero (1:48.34)	7:21.75
16	3	7	Czech Republic	Jan Šefl (1:51.64) Michal Rubáček (1:51.79) Martin Verner (1:49.82) Květoslav Svoboda (1:51.21)	7:24.46	NR
–	2	2	South Korea		DNS

Final[]

The final was held at 19:41.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	United States	Michael Phelps (1:45.53) Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.07) Ricky Berens (1:46.51) Ryan Lochte (1:44.56)	7:02.67
	3	France	Yannick Agnel (1:45.25) Grégory Mallet (1:46.81) Jérémy Stravius (1:45.40) Fabien Gilot (1:47.35)	7:04.81	NR
	7	China	Wang Shun (1:47.09) Zhang Lin (1:46.14) Li Yunqi (1:47.30) Sun Yang (1:45.14)	7:05.67	NR
4	8	Germany	Paul Biedermann (1:45.20) Tim Wallburger (1:47.70) Christoph Fildebrandt (1:48.16) Benjamin Starke (1:47.26)	7:08.32
5	6	Australia	Thomas Fraser-Holmes (1:48.35) Kenrick Monk (1:45.84) (1:48.01) Ryan Napoleon (1:46.28)	7:08.48
6	1	Great Britain	Ross Davenport (1:47.31) David Carry (1:47.47) (1:48.78) Robert Renwick (1:47.28)	7:10.84
7	5	Japan	Takeshi Matsuda (1:47.37) (1:46.87) Yuki Kobori (1:47.74) Yoshihiro Okumura (1:48.94)	7:10.92
8	2	Italy	Gianluca Maglia (1:48.57) Filippo Magnini (1:47.54) Marco Belotti (1:47.97) Samuel Pizzetti (1:48.18)	7:12.26

References[]

External links[]

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.
• FINA World Championships, Swimming: Ryan Lochte's Monster Anchor Leg Secures United States Victory in 800 Free Relay, Swimming World Magazine (2011-07-29); retrieved 2011-08-09.