Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Date	25 March 2007
Teams	35
Winning time	3 minutes 12.72 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps Neil Walker Cullen Jones Jason Lezak    United States   Massimiliano Rosolino Alessandro Calvi Christian Galenda Filippo Magnini    Italy   Fabien Gilot Frédérick Bousquet Julien Sicot Alain Bernard    France

The men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March 2007 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The top-12 finishers from this race qualified for the event at the 2008 Olympics. 35 teams entered in the event, of which 34 swam.

The existing records when the event started were:

• World record (WR): 3:12.46, USA (Phelps, Walker, Jones, Lezak), 19 August 2006 in Victoria, Canada.
• Championship record (CR): 3:13.77, USA (Phelps, Walker, Dusing, Lezak), Montreal 2005 (24 July 2005)

Results

Final

Place	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
1	USA	Michael Phelps   (48.42), Neil Walker   (48.31), Cullen Jones   (48.67), Jason Lezak   (47.32)	3:12.72	CR
2	Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino   (49.35), Alessandro Calvi   (49.06), Christian Galenda   (48.45), Filippo Magnini   (47.18)	3:14.04
3	France	Fabien Gilot   (49.18), Frédérick Bousquet   (48.48), Julien Sicot   (48.84), Alain Bernard   (48.18)	3:14.68
4	South Africa	Ryk Neethling   (49.17), Lyndon Ferns   (48.46), Gerhard Zandberg   (49.16), Roland Schoeman   (47.98)	3:14.77
5	Australia	Eamon Sullivan   (48.88), Ashley Callus   (48.86), Andrew Lauterstein   (49.17), Kenrick Monk   (48.98)	3:15.89
6	Sweden	Petter Stymne   (49.78), Stefan Nystrand   (48.17), Lars Frölander   (48.71), Christoffer Wikström   (49.43)	3:16.09
7	Canada	Brent Hayden   (48.55), Matt Rose   (49.42), Rick Say   (48.88), Joel Greenshields   (50.06)	3:16.91
8	Brazil	César Cielo   (48.63), Nicolas Oliveira   (48.82), Rodrigo Castro   (49.45), Thiago Pereira   (50.13)	3:17.03	SA

Heats

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
1	Italy	Lorenzo Vismara,   Christian Galenda, Alessandro Calvi,   Filippo Magnini	3:15.83	Q Olympic
2	Sweden	Petter Stymne,   Stefan Nystrand, Christoffer Wikström,   Marcus Piehl	3:16.16	Q Olympic
3	USA	Garrett Weber-Gale,   Ben Wildman-Tobriner, Cullen Jones,   Neil Walker	3:16.43	Q Olympic
4	Australia	Eamon Sullivan,   Michael Klim, Patrick Murphy,   Kenrick Monk	3:16.46	Q Olympic
5	France	Fabien Gilot,   Grégory Mallet, Julien Sicot,   Amaury Leveaux	3:16.51	Q Olympic
6	Canada	Rick Say,   Matt Rose, Joel Greenshields,   Brent Hayden	3:17.38	Q Olympic
7	Brazil	César Cielo,   Nicolas Oliveira, Eduardo Deboni,   Rodrigo Castro	3:18.00	Q Olympic
8	South Africa	Ryk Neethling,   Lyndon Ferns, Gerhard Zandberg,   Jean Basson	3:18.15	Q Olympic
9	Great Britain	Chris Cozens,   Simon Burnett, Ross Davenport,   Ben Hockin	3:18.96	Olympic
10	Germany	Jens Schreiber,   Michael Schubert, Jens Thiele,   Lars Conrad	3:19.00	Olympic
11	Switzerland	Dominik Meichtry,   Karel Novy, Alessandro Gaffuri,   Flori Lang	3:19.22	Olympic
12	Japan	Takamitsu Kojima,   Makoto Ito, Hiroaki Yamamoto,   Daisuke Hosokawa	3:19.70	Olympic
13	Croatia	Bruno Barbic,   Mario Todorovic, Mario Delač,   Igor Čerenšek	3:20.53
14	Venezuela	Luis Rojas,   Octavio Alesi, Crox Acuña,   Albert Subirats	3:21.21
15	China	HUANG Shaohua,   CAI Li, LU Zhiwu,   CHEN Zuo	3:21.26
16	New Zealand	Cameron Gibson,   Robert Voss, Mark Herring,   Michael Jack	3:21.73
17	Uruguay	Paul Kutscher,   Gabriel Melconian, Francisco Picasso,   Martín Kutscher	3:22.13
18	Kazakhstan	Stanislav Kuzmin,   Alaxandr Sklyar, Vitaliy Khan,   Vyacheslav Titarenko	3:23.11
19	India	Ankur Poseria,   Arjun Muralidharan, Sandeep Nagar Anthal,   Virdhawal Khade	3:32.51
20	Kenya	Jason Dunford,   David Dunford, Rama Vyombo,   Amar Shah	3:32.60
21	Indonesia	Brian Howard Ho,   Albert Cristiadi Sutanto, Felix Cristiadi Sutanto,   Andy Wibowo	3:34.26
22	Virgin Islands	Keiran Locke,   Morgan Locke, Kevin Hensley,   Josh Laban	3:34.92
23	Peru	Nikola Ustadvich,   Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni, Oscar Jahnsen,   Sebastian Jahnsen	3:35.63
24	Macau	Wing Cheung Victor Wong,   Wui Chon Cheong, Kin Wa Cheong,   Hong Name Lei	3:46.10
25	Guam	Carlos Shimizu,   Celestino Aguon, Hernan Bonsembiante,   Christopher Duenas	3:50.46
26	Guyana	Onan Thom,   Niall Roberts, Jamaal Sobers,   Yannick Roberts	3:55.87
27	Thailand	Suriya Suksuphak,   Radomyos Matjiur, Arwut Chinnapasaen,   Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart	3:56.05
28	Mongolia	Batchuluun Mendbayar,   Battushig Enkhtaivan, Butekhuils Boldbaatar,   Tamir Andrei	3:56.81
29	Lesotho	Thabiso Baholo (1:22.22),   Lehlohonolo Moromella (1:34.45), Boipelo Makhothi (1:18.30),   Seele Benjamin Ntai (1:27.99)	5:42.96
--	Nigeria		DNS
--	Uzbekistan	Ravil Nachaev, Sergey Tsoy, Petr Romashkin, Danil Bugakov	DQ
--	Russia	Andrey Grechin, Andrey Kapralov, Sergey Fesikov, Evgeny Lagunov	DQ
--	Lithuania	Rolandas Gimbutis, Saulius Binevičius, Paulius Viktoravicius, Vytautas Janušaitis	DQ
--	Singapore	Shirong Jeffrey Su, Quee Lim Ernest Teo, Bing Ming Thum, Russell Ong	DQ
--	Ukraine	Andriy Serdinov, Oleksandr Tsepukh, Oleksandr Isakov, Yuriy Yegoshin	DQ

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

References

• Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.