Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
Introduction The '''men's 4×100 m freestyle relay''' at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships took place on 26 July 2009 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: '''World Record''' Michael Phelps (47.51)Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02)Cullen Jones (47.65)Jason Lezak (46.06) 3:08.24 Beijing, China 11 August 2008 '''Championship Record''' Michael Phelps (48.42)Neil Walker (48.31)Cullen Jones (48.67)Jason Lezak (47.32) 3:12.72 Melbourne, Australia 25 March 2007The following records were established during the competition: Date  Round  Nation  Time  Record 26 July  Heat 3 Matthew Abood (48.35)  Andrew Lauterstein (48.42) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.82)  Matt Targett (48.07)  3:12.58  '''CR''' 26 July  Heat 4 Amaury Leveaux (48.37)  Grégory Mallet (47.78) William Meynard (48.11)  Fabien Gilot (47.12)  3:11.38  '''CR''' 26 July  Heat 5 César Cielo Filho (47.39) '''CR''' Nicolas Oliveira (47.51) Guilherme Roth (48.15)  Fernando Silva (48.21)  3:11.26  '''CR''' 26 July  Final Michael Phelps (47.78)  Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61)  Nathan Adrian (46.79)  3:09.21  '''CR'''
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Heat  Lane  Nation Swimmers Time   Notes 1  5  6   César Cielo Filho (47.39) '''CR''', '''AM'''  Nicolas Oliveira (47.51)  Guilherme Roth (48.15)    Fernando Silva (48.21)  3:11.26 '''CR''', '''SA''' 2  4  4    Amaury Leveaux (48.37)  Grégory Mallet (47.78)  William Meynard (48.11)  Fabien Gilot (47.12)  3:11.38 3  4  3   Adam Brown (49.01)  Simon Burnett (47.57)  Liam Tancock (47.74)  Ross Davenport (47.30)  3:11.62'''NR''' 4  5  4   Garrett Weber-Gale (48.30)  Matt Grevers (47.55)  Ricky Berens (48.19)  Cullen Jones (47.60)  3:11.64 5  5  5    Francesco Donin (48.79)  Alessandro Calvi (47.88)  Marco Orsi (47.89)  Christian Galenda (47.20)  3:11.76 6  5  3    Lyndon Ferns (47.94) '''AF'''  Darian Townsend (48.02)  Roland Mark Schoeman (48.54)  Graeme Moore (47.58)  3:12.08'''AF''' 7  3  4   Matthew Abood (48.35)  Andrew Lauterstein (48.32)  Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.84)  Matt Targett (48.07)  3:12.58 8  3  3   Yevgeny Lagunov (48.48)  Danila Izotov (48.21)  Nikita Konovalov (48.46)  Alexander Sukhorukov (47.63) '''NR''' 9  3  5   Brent Hayden (47.77) Joel Greenshields (48.36)  Colin Russell (48.11)  Stefan Hirniak (48.72)   3:12.96 10  4  5   Stefan Nystrand (47.52) '''NR'''  Lars Frölander (48.12)  Simon Sjödin (48.62)  Petter Stymne (49.12)  3:13.38 11  4  2    Takuro Fujii (48.87)  Rammaru Harada (49.37)  Yoshihiro Okumura (47.93)  Makoto Ito (49.46)  3:15.63 '''AS''' 12  5  2   Dominik Meichtry (49.02)  Flori Lang (48.15)  Gregory Widmer (48.63)  Aurelien Kunzi (50.33)  3:16.13 '''NR''' 13  4  6    Konrad Czerniak (48.61)  Marcin Tarczyński (48.95)  Łukasz Gąsior (48.80)  Mateusz Stawinski (49.99)  3:16.35 14  4  8    Vytautas Janušaitis (49.50)  Paulius Viktoravičius (48.01)  Mindaugas Sadauskas (48.90)  Mindaugas Margis (50.06)  3:16.47 '''NR''' 15  3  6    Chen Zuo (49.70)  Lü Zhiwu (49.04)  Shi Tengfei (49.27)  Cai Li (49.07)  3:17.08 16  3  2   Crox Acuña (49.95)  Octavio Alesi (49.69)  Roberto Gómez (48.84)  Albert Subirats (49.31)  3:17.79'''NR''' 17  2  1   Pholien Systermans (50.19)  Yoris Grandjean (49.12)  Pierre Yves Romanini (49.43)  Glenn Surgeloose (49.23)  3:17.97 '''NR''' 18  1  4   Michal Rubáček (49.46)  Martin Verner (48.87)  Jan Šefl (50.11)  Květoslav Svoboda (50.23)  3:18.67'''NR''' 19  3  0   Barry Murphy (49.98) '''NR''' Ryan Harrison (50.87)  Conor Leaney (49.51)  Karl Burdis (51.41)  3:21.77'''NR''' 20  5  7    Stanislav Kuzmin (50.69)  Alexandr Sklyar (50.13)  Oleg Rabota (51.34)  Artur Dilman (50.79)  3:22.95 21  4  1    Daniil Tulupov (50.89)  Danil Bugakov (50.10)  Dmitriy Shvetsov (51.36)  Petr Romashkin (51.20)  3:23.55 22  5  0   Emin Noshadi (52.23)  Pasha Vahdati Rad (51.37)  Saeid Malekae Ashtiani (51.69)  Mohammad Bidaryan (51.09)  3:26.38 23  3  7    Shawn Clarke (50.40) '''NR''' Martyn Forde (51.85)  Terrence Haynes (50.67)  Vaughn Forsythe (54.23)  3:27.15'''NR''' 24  5  1   Miguel Molina (51.84)  Kendrick Uy (53.29)  Charles William Walker (51.35)  Daniel Coakley (51.53)  3:28.01 25  5  8   Lim Clement (52.35)  Lim Wen Hao Joshua (51.16)  Tan Xue Wei Nicholas (52.21)  Su Shirong Jeffrey (52.40)  3:28.12  26  3  8    Arjun Jayaprakash (55.25)  Rehan Poncha (55.71)  Virdhawal Khade (50.78)  Ashwin Menon (53.50)  3:35.24 27  3  1    Mohammed Madouh (52.58)  Humoud Alhumoud (54.62)  Abdulrahman Albader (54.12)  Marzouq Alsalem (54.29)  3:35.61 28  4  0    Obaid Al Jesmi (53.54)  Mubarak Al-Besher (56.03)  Saeed Al Jesmi (54.84)  Mohammed Al Ghaferi (53.54)  3:37.95  29  4  9    Papa Madiop Ndong (55.79)  Matar Samb (54.82)  Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane (54.84)  Malick Fall (52.87)  3:38.32 30  2  7   Samson Opuakpo (54.06)  Eric Williams (56.55)  Pepelate Gbagi (55.73)  Yellow Yeiyah (55.05)  3:41.39 31  2  4    Sergey Pevnev (58.67)  Andranik Harutyunyan (53.50)  Khachik Plavchyan (58.48)  Mikayel Koloyan (51.17)  3:41.82 32  2  3   Endi Babi (54.87)  Mario Sulkja (58.16)  Eduart Cane (56.48)  Sidni Hoxha (52.62)  3:42.13 33  1  5   Neil Agius (55.41)  Edward Caruana Dingli (54.90)  Andrea Agius (56.05)  Mark Sammut (56.33)  3:42.69 34  3  9    Lao Kuan Fong (54.26)  Antonio Tong (55.86)  Wong Wing Cheung Victor (54.93)  Chong Cheok Kuan (58.24)  3:43.29 35  2  5    Ronny Vencatachellum (56.24)  Mathieu Marquet (57.41)  Jean Hugues Gregoire (54.96)  Jean Marie Froget (56.47)  3:45.08 36  1  3   Leonel Matonse (55.50)  Ivo Chilaule (55.62)  Gerusio Matonse (58.30)  Patricio Vera (56.00)  3:45.42 37  2  6    Ryan Pini (50.13)  Daniel Kevin Pryke (56.59)  Ian Bond Wolongkatop Nakmai (1:02.57)  Peter Popahun Pokawin (56.48) 3:45.77 38  2  2   Eli Ebenezer Wong (56.03)  Cooper Graf (1:01.94)  Shin Kimura (1:03.72)  Kailan Staal (56.14)  3:57.83 -  2  8     DNS  -  5  9     DNS  -  4  7    DQ ===Final=== Rank  Lane  Nation  Swimmers  Time  Note   6    Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)   3:09.21  '''CR'''   8   Yevgeny Lagunov (47.90) Andrey Grechin (47.00) Danila Izotov  (47.23) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39)   3:09.52 '''NR'''   5   Fabien Gilot (47.73) Alain Bernard (46.46) Grégory Mallet (48.28) Frédérick Bousquet (47.42)   3:09.89  4  4    César Cielo Filho (47.09) '''CR''', '''AM''' Nicolas Oliveira (47.39) Guilherme Roth (48.15) Fernando Silva (48.17)   3:10.80 '''SA''' 5  2    Alessandro Calvi (49.03) Christian Galenda (47.60) Marco Orsi  (47.91) Filippo Magnini (47.39)  3:11.93  5  7    Lyndon Ferns (48.32) Graeme Moore (48.05) Darian Townsend (48.05) Roland Mark Schoeman (47.51)   3:11.93 '''AF''' 7  3   Adam Brown (48.66) Simon Burnett (47.50) Liam Tancock (47.81) Ross Davenport (48.12)   3:12.09  8  1    Matthew Abood (48.79) Matt Targett (47.49) Andrew Lauterstein (48.41) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.71)  3:12.40
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