Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Paris Aquatics Centre, | ||||||||||||
Dates | 30 July 2024 (heats and final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 75 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
Teams | 16 teams | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 6:59.43 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Freestyle | |||
50 m | men | women | |
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
800 m | men | women | |
1500 m | men | women | |
Backstroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Breaststroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Butterfly | |||
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 | mixed | women |
Marathon | |||
10 km | men | women | |
The men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 30 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
World record |
| 6:58.55 | Rome, Italy | 31 July 2009 | [1] [2] |
Olympic record |
| 6:58.56 | Beijing, China | 13 August 2008 | [3] |
For the relays, a maximum of 16 qualifying teams in each event must be permitted to accumulate a total of 112 relay teams; each NOC may enter only one team. The top three teams in each relay race at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan will directly book a slot for their corresponding event at the Olympics, while the remaining thirteen vying for qualification per relay race must attain their best time from the heats and finals at the combined 2023 and 2024 meet in Doha. [4]
The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The teams with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. In the event of a tie in the heats, both tied teams will qualify to the final, and no swim-off will be held.
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Date | Time | Round |
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30 July 2024 | 10:00 | Heats |
20:30 | Final |
Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmer | Time | Total | Notes |
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![]() | 4 | ![]() | James Guy | 1:45.09 | 6:59.43 | |
Tom Dean | 1:45.28 | |||||
Matthew Richards | 1:45.11 | |||||
Duncan Scott | 1:43.95 | |||||
![]() | 5 | ![]() | Luke Hobson | 1:45.55 | 7:00.78 | |
Carson Foster | 1:45.31 | |||||
Drew Kibler | 1:45.12 | |||||
Kieran Smith | 1:44.80 | |||||
![]() | 6 | ![]() | Maximillian Giuliani | 1:45.99 | 7:01.98 | |
Flynn Southam | 1:45.53 | |||||
Elijah Winnington | 1:45.19 | |||||
Thomas Neill | 1:45.27 | |||||
4 | 7 | ![]() | Ji Xinjie | 1:47.14 | 7:04.37 | |
Fei Liwei | 1:46.05 | |||||
Pan Zhanle | 1:45.81 | |||||
Zhang Zhanshuo | 1:45.37 | |||||
5 | 3 | ![]() | Wissam-Amazigh Yebba | 1:46.72 | 7:04.80 | |
Hadrien Salvan | 1:46.75 | |||||
Yann Le Goff | 1:45.63 | |||||
Roman Fuchs | 1:45.70 | |||||
6 | 1 | ![]() | Yang Jae-hoon | 1:49.84 | 7:07.26 | |
Lee Ho-joon | 1:46.45 | |||||
Kim Woo-min | 1:44.98 | |||||
Hwang Sun-woo | 1:45.99 | |||||
7 | 8 | ![]() | Tatsuya Murasa | 1:46.69 | 7:07.48 | |
Katsuhiro Matsumoto | 1:45.31 | |||||
Hidenari Mano | 1:47.36 | |||||
Konosuke Yanagimoto | 1:48.12 | |||||
8 | 2 | ![]() | Lukas Märtens | 1:45.31 | 7:09.56 | |
Rafael Miroslaw | 1:46.32 | |||||
Timo Sorgius | 1:49.18 | |||||
Josha Salchow | 1:48.75 | |||||
9 | 0 | ![]() | Denis Loktev | 1:48.16 | 7:10.22 | |
Gal Cohen Groumi | 1:46.25 | |||||
Tomer Frankel | 1:47.71 | |||||
Bar Soloveychik | 1:48.10 |
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