Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

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Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueParis Aquatics Centre,
Dates30 July 2024 (heats and final)
Competitors75 from 16 nations
Teams16 teams
Winning time6:59.43
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg James Guy, Tom Dean, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott, Jack McMillan*, Kieran Bird*Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Drew Kibler, Kieran Smith, Brooks Curry*, Blake Pieroni*, Chris Guiliano*Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg

Maximillian Giuliani, Flynn Southam, Elijah Winnington, Thomas Neill, Kai Taylor*, Zac Incerti*


*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.		Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
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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.


Records

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]

Qualification

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]

Competition format

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.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

DateTimeRound
30 July 202410:00Heats
20:30Final

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNationSwimmerTimeTotalNotes
124Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain James Guy 1:45.047:05:11Q
Jack McMillan 1:45.68
Kieran Bird 1:47.68
Tom Dean 1:46.71
214Flag of the United States.svg  United States Drew Kibler 1:46.437:05.57Q
Brooks Curry 1:45.96
Blake Pieroni 1:46.44
Chris Guiliano 1:46.74
313Flag of France.svg  France Hadrien Salvan 1:47.807:05.61Q
Wissam-Amazigh Yebba 1:46.04
Yann Le Goff 1:46.55
Roman Fuchs 1:45.22
423Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Kai Taylor 1:47.607:05.63Q
Zac Incerti 1:47.05
Flynn Southam 1:45.62
Thomas Neill 1:45.36
516Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Lukas Märtens 1:45.667:06.20Q
Rafael Miroslaw 1:46.35
Josha Salchow 1:46.18
Timo Sorgius 1:48.01
625Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Ji Xinjie 1:46.597:07.72Q
Niu Guangsheng 1:48.43
Fei Liwei 1:46.57
Zhang Zhanshuo 1:46.13
715Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Lee Ho-joon 1:46.537:07.96Q
Lee Yoo-yeon 1:47.58
Kim Yeong-hyeon 1:48.26
Kim Woo-min 1:45.59
812Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Tatsuya Murasa 1:47.307:08.43Q
Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:45.77
Hidenari Mano 1:48.09
Konosuke Yanagimoto 1:47.27
17Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Denis Loktev 1:47.327:08.43Q, NR
Bar Soloveychik 1:47.53
Eitan Ben-Shitrit 1:48.01
Gal Cohen Groumi 1:45.57
1026Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Giovanni Caserta 1:46.857:08.63
Alessandro Ragaini 1:48.08
Carlos D'Ambrosio 1:47.24
Filippo Megli 1:46.46
1127Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Dimitrios Markos 1:47.667:09.60
Konstantinos Englezakis 1:46.71
Konstantinos Stamou 1:48.00
Andreas Vazaios 1:47.23
1222Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Murilo Sartori 1:48.567:10.26
Fernando Scheffer 1:46.76
Eduardo Oliveira de Moraes 1:48.53
Guilherme Costa 1:46.41
1311Flag of Spain.svg  Spain César Castro 1:46.847:11.62
Luis Domínguez 1:46.82
Carlos Garach 1:48.40
Ferran Julià Tous 1:49.56
1428Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Patrick Hussey 1:47.837:12.07
Alex Axon 1:47.57
Jeremy Bagshaw 1:48.10
Lorne Wigginton 1:48.57
1521Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Tomas Navikonis 1:47.087:16.61
Danas Rapšys 1:46.29
Tomas Lukminas 1:47.30
Andrius Šidlauskas 1:55.94
1618Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Antonio Djakovic 1:47.977:18.06
Nils Liess 1:49.95
Jérémy Desplanches 1:49.24
Tiago Behar 1:50.90

[5] [6]

Final

RankLaneNationSwimmerTimeTotalNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain James Guy 1:45.096:59.43
Tom Dean 1:45.28
Matthew Richards 1:45.11
Duncan Scott 1:43.95
Silver medal icon.svg5Flag of the United States.svg  United States Luke Hobson 1:45.557:00.78
Carson Foster 1:45.31
Drew Kibler 1:45.12
Kieran Smith 1:44.80
Bronze medal icon.svg6Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Maximillian Giuliani 1:45.997:01.98
Flynn Southam 1:45.53
Elijah Winnington 1:45.19
Thomas Neill 1:45.27
47Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Ji Xinjie 1:47.147:04.37
Fei Liwei 1:46.05
Pan Zhanle 1:45.81
Zhang Zhanshuo 1:45.37
53Flag of France.svg  France Wissam-Amazigh Yebba 1:46.727:04.80
Hadrien Salvan 1:46.75
Yann Le Goff 1:45.63
Roman Fuchs 1:45.70
61Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Yang Jae-hoon 1:49.847:07.26
Lee Ho-joon 1:46.45
Kim Woo-min 1:44.98
Hwang Sun-woo 1:45.99
78Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Tatsuya Murasa 1:46.697:07.48
Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:45.31
Hidenari Mano 1:47.36
Konosuke Yanagimoto 1:48.12
82Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Lukas Märtens 1:45.317:09.56
Rafael Miroslaw 1:46.32
Timo Sorgius 1:49.18
Josha Salchow 1:48.75
90Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Denis Loktev 1:48.167:10.22
Gal Cohen Groumi 1:46.25
Tomer Frankel 1:47.71
Bar Soloveychik 1:48.10

[7]

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