Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×200m Free Relay at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 23
Nations	17
Winning time	7 minutes 8.58 seconds
Medalists
Australia    USA    Germany

The Men's 4×200 Freestyle Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 23, 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 both:

• WR and CR: 7:04.66 swum by Australia on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Australia	Grant Hackett, Craig Stevens, Nicholas Sprenger, Ian Thorpe	7:08.58
2	USA	Michael Phelps, Nate Dusing, Aaron Peirsol, Klete Keller	7:10.26
3	Germany	Johannes Oesterling, Lars Conrad, Stefan Herbst, Christian Keller	7:14.02
4	Italy	Matteo Pelliciari, Emiliano Brembilla, Federico Cappellazzo, Massimiliano Rosolino	7:14.32
5	Canada	Brian Johns, Mike Mintenko, Mark Johnston, Rick Say	7:17.38
6	Great Britain	Simon Burnett, Ross Davenport, Robin Francis, Edward Sinclair	7:18.99
7	Greece	Nikolaos Xylouris, Athanasios Oikonomou, Andreas Zisimos, Dimitros Manganas	7:20.60
8	China	Yu Liu, Peng Wu, Shaohua Huang, Zuo Chen	7:27.96

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat/Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	H2 L4	United States	Scott Goldblatt, Chad Carvin Kevin Clements, Klete Keller	7:15.91	q
2	H3 L4	Australia	Antony Matkovich, Nicholas Sprenger Jason Cram, Craig Stevens	7:17.68	q
3	H1 L4	Italy	Filippo Magnini, Alessio Boggiatto Matteo Pelliciari, Christian Galenda	7:19.61	q
4	H2 L5	Germany	Johannes Oesterling, Lars Conrad Helge Meeuw, Christian Keller	7:19.67	q
5	H3 L5	Canada	Brian Johns, Rick Say Mark Johnston, Brent Hayden	7:20.30	q
6	H3 L3	Great Britain	Simon Burnett, Ross Davenport Adam Faulkner, Edward Sinclair	7:20.86	q
7	H1 L5	Greece	Nikolaos Xylouris, Athanasios Oikonomou Andreas Zisimos, Dimitros Manganas	7:21.27	q
8	H1 L3	China	Yu Liu, Peng Wu Shaohua Huang, Zuo Chen	7:21.74	q
9	H3 L6	Brazil	Rodrigo Castro, Gustavo Borges Rafael Mosca, Carlos Jayme	7:25.33
10	H3 L7	Netherlands	Martijn Zuijdweg, Arnold van Bavel Thomas Felten, Klaas Erik Zwering	7:25.46
11	H1 L6	Ukraine	Sergiy Fesenko, Yuri Yegoshin Dmytro Vereitinov, Maksym Kokosha	7:25.53
12	H2 L3	Spain	Olaf Wildeboer, Javier Nunez Albert Medrano, Marco Rivera	7:29.89
13	H2 L6	Switzerland	Dominik Meichtry, Gerry Strasser David Richard, Philipp Gilgen	7:33.00
14	H2 L2	Chile	Gian Carlo Zolezzi, Carlos Castro Roberto Peñailillo, Max Schnettler	7:42.73
15	H1 L2	Uzbekistan	Timur Irgashev, Petr Vasilev Sergey Tsoy, Alexander Agafonov	7:54.27
16	H2 L7	Seychelles	Kenny Roberts, Bertrand Bristol Barnsley Albert, Jean Paul Adam	8:23.35
-	-	Slovenia		DNS

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