Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	4 December 2006 (2006-12-04)
Competitors	61 from 14 nations
Medalists
Japan Takeshi Matsuda, Yuji Sakurai, Takamitsu Kojima, Daisuke Hosokawa    China Yu Chenglong, Zhang Enjian, Chen Zuo, Zhang Lin    South Korea Lim Nam-gyun, Han Kyu-chul, Kang Yong-hwan, Park Tae-hwan

Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 4, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar.

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World record	Australia	7:04.66	Fukuoka, Japan	21 July 2001
Asian record	Japan	7:13.60	Montreal, Canada	29 July 2005
Games record	Japan	7:20.59	Busan, South Korea	30 September 2002

Results

Legend

• DSQ — Disqualified

Heats

Rank	Heat	Team	Time	Notes
1	1	China (CHN)	7:24.05
		Zhang Enjian	1:51.67
		Chen Zuo	1:50.99
		Yu Chenglong	1:49.81
		Wu Peng	1:51.58
2	2	Japan (JPN)	7:26.01
		Yuji Sakurai	1:52.09
		Hiroaki Yamamoto	1:50.32
		Kenichi Doki	1:52.52
		Takeshi Matsuda	1:51.08
3	2	South Korea (KOR)	7:35.62
		Chung Yong	1:56.17
		Lim Nam-gyun	1:53.83
		Kang Yong-hwan	1:52.44
		Han Kyu-chul	1:53.18
4	1	Singapore (SGP)	7:42.74
		Sng Ju Wei	1:56.73
		Bryan Tay	1:55.47
		Gary Tan	1:54.93
		Marcus Cheah	1:55.61
5	1	Uzbekistan (UZB)	7:44.88
		Timur Irgashev	1:57.28
		Ibrahim Nazarov	1:56.23
		Petr Romashkin	1:55.71
		Petr Vasiliev	1:55.66
6	1	Philippines (PHI)	7:44.98
		Miguel Molina	1:53.21
		Enchong Dee	1:59.41
		James Walsh	1:55.62
		Ryan Arabejo	1:56.74
7	2	Kuwait (KUW)	7:45.26
		Waleed Al-Qahtani	1:56.69
		Mohammad Madwa	1:56.42
		Nawaf Al-Wazan	1:56.17
		Marzouq Al-Salem	1:55.98
8	2	Iran (IRI)	7:45.54
		Emin Noshadi	1:56.97
		Mohammad Bidarian	1:56.97
		Saeid Maleka Ashtiani	1:55.23
		Soheil Maleka Ashtiani	1:56.37
9	2	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	7:50.03
		Tang Sheng-chieh	1:55.64
		Tsai Kuo-chuan	1:56.07
		Chen Te-tung	1:56.20
		Yuan Ping	2:02.12
10	1	Hong Kong (HKG)	7:51.22
		Cheung Siu Hang	1:56.22
		Philip Yee	1:58.83
		Kevin Chu	1:59.04
		David Wong	1:57.13
11	2	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	8:04.66
		Vasilii Danilov	1:56.22
		Iurii Zakharov	1:59.62
		Timur Kartabaev	2:06.81
		Rashid Iunusov	2:02.01
12	1	India (IND)	8:10.12
		Virdhawal Khade	1:56.31
		Rehan Poncha	2:09.72
		Arjun Muralidharan	2:02.86
		Ankur Poseria	2:01.23
13	1	Qatar (QAT)	8:17.27
		Anas Abu-Yousuf	1:58.72
		Moyssara El-Aarag	2:02.41
		Osama El-Aarag	2:08.29
		Ahmed Salamoun	2:07.85
14	2	Macau (MAC)	8:21.69
		Victor Wong	1:58.85
		Lei Chi Lon	2:09.39
		Lao Kuan Fong	2:04.11
		Antonio Tong	2:09.34

Final

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
	Japan (JPN)	7:14.86	GR
	Takeshi Matsuda	1:47.83
	Yuji Sakurai	1:48.73
	Takamitsu Kojima	1:49.94
	Daisuke Hosokawa	1:48.36
	China (CHN)	7:15.13
	Yu Chenglong	1:50.13
	Zhang Enjian	1:48.64
	Chen Zuo	1:49.45
	Zhang Lin	1:46.91
	South Korea (KOR)	7:23.61
	Lim Nam-gyun	1:51.51
	Han Kyu-chul	1:51.46
	Kang Yong-hwan	1:50.85
	Park Tae-hwan	1:49.79
4	Singapore (SGP)	7:39.61
	Bryan Tay	1:52.15
	Sng Ju Wei	1:56.69
	Gary Tan	1:55.29
	Marcus Cheah	1:55.48
5	Uzbekistan (UZB)	7:43.07
	Petr Romashkin	1:56.19
	Timur Irgashev	1:55.41
	Danil Bugakov	1:56.26
	Petr Vasiliev	1:55.21
6	Philippines (PHI)	7:44.93
	Miguel Molina	1:53.39
	Ryan Arabejo	1:57.06
	Enchong Dee	1:59.27
	James Walsh	1:55.21
7	Iran (IRI)	7:50.10
	Emin Noshadi	1:57.71
	Mohammad Bidarian	1:57.72
	Saeid Maleka Ashtiani	1:56.85
	Soheil Maleka Ashtiani	1:57.82
—	Kuwait (KUW)	DSQ
	Waleed Al-Qahtani
	Mohammad Madwa
	Nawaf Al-Wazan
	Marzouq Al-Salem

References

• Results