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

Olympic sporting event
Part of	swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Competition class	men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
Sport	swimming
Country	France
Ein location	Paris La Défense Arena
Dey follow	swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
Point for tym insyd	30 July 2024
Participating team	Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Na dem hold de men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay event for de 2024 Summer Olympics for 30 July 2024 for de Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to dis competition, na de existing world den Olympic records be as follows:

World record	United States (USA) Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46)	6:58.55	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009	^[3]^[4]
Olympic record	United States Michael Phelps (1:43.31) Ryan Lochte (1:44.28) Ricky Berens (1:46.29) Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68)	6:58.56	Beijing, China	13 August 2008	^[5]

Qualification

For de relays, dem for permit maximum of 16 qualifying teams insyd each event make dem accumulate total of 112 relay teams; each NOC fi enter one team per. De top three teams insyd each relay race for de 2023 World Aquatics Championships insyd Fukuoka, Japan go directly book a slot give dema corresponding event for de Olympics, while de remaining thirteen wey dey vie for qualification per relay race for attain dema best time from de heats den finals for de combined 2023 den 2024 meet insyd Doha.^[6]

Competition format

De competition dey consists of two rounds: heats den final. De teams plus de best 8 times insyd de heats advance go de final. Insyd de event of a tie insyd de heats, both tied teams go qualify go de final, wey dem no go hold swim-off.

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Round
30 July 2024	10:00	Heats
30 July 2024	20:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmer	Time	Total	Notes
1	2	4	Great Britain	James Guy	1:45.04	7:05:11	Q
				Jack McMillan	1:45.68
				Kieran Bird	1:47.68
				Tom Dean	1:46.71
2	1	4	United States	Drew Kibler	1:46.43	7:05.57	Q
				Brooks Curry	1:45.96
				Blake Pieroni	1:46.44
				Chris Guiliano	1:46.74
3	1	3	France	Hadrien Salvan	1:47.80	7:05.61	Q
				Wissam-Amazigh Yebba	1:46.04
				Yann Le Goff	1:46.55
				Roman Fuchs	1:45.22
4	2	3	Australia	Kai Taylor	1:47.60	7:05.63	Q
				Zac Incerti	1:47.05
				Flynn Southam	1:45.62
				Thomas Neill	1:45.36
5	1	6	Germany	Lukas Märtens	1:45.66	7:06.20	Q
				Rafael Miroslaw	1:46.35
				Josha Salchow	1:46.18
				Timo Sorgius	1:48.01
6	2	5	China	Ji Xinjie	1:46.59	7:07.72	Q
				Niu Guangsheng	1:48.43
				Fei Liwei	1:46.57
				Zhang Zhanshuo	1:46.13
7	1	5	South Korea	Lee Ho-joon	1:46.53	7:07.96	Q
				Lee Yoo-yeon	1:47.58
				Kim Yeong-hyeon	1:48.26
				Kim Woo-min	1:45.59
8	1	2	Japan	Tatsuya Murasa	1:47.30	7:08.43	Q
				Katsuhiro Matsumoto	1:45.77
				Hidenari Mano	1:48.09
				Konosuke Yanagimoto	1:47.27
	1	7	Israel	Denis Loktev	1:47.32	7:08.43	Q, NR
				Bar Soloveychik	1:47.53
				Eitan Ben-Shitrit	1:48.01
				Gal Cohen Groumi	1:45.57
10	2	6	Italy	Giovanni Caserta	1:46.85	7:08.63
				Alessandro Ragaini	1:48.08
				Carlos D'Ambrosio	1:47.24
				Filippo Megli	1:46.46
11	2	7	Greece	Dimitrios Markos	1:47.66	7:09.60
				Konstantinos Englezakis	1:46.71
				Konstantinos Stamou	1:48.00
				Andreas Vazaios	1:47.23
12	2	2	Brazil	Murilo Sartori	1:48.56	7:10.26
				Fernando Scheffer	1:46.76
				Eduardo Oliveira de Moraes	1:48.53
				Guilherme Costa	1:46.41
13	1	1	Spain	César Castro	1:46.84	7:11.62
				Luis Domínguez	1:46.82
				Carlos Garach	1:48.40
				Ferran Julià Tous	1:49.56
14	2	8	Canada	Patrick Hussey	1:47.83	7:12.07
				Alex Axon	1:47.57
				Jeremy Bagshaw	1:48.10
				Lorne Wigginton	1:48.57
15	2	1	Lithuania	Tomas Navikonis	1:47.08	7:16.61
				Danas Rapšys	1:46.29
				Tomas Lukminas	1:47.30
				Andrius Šidlauskas	1:55.94
16	1	8	Switzerland	Antonio Djakovic	1:47.97	7:18.06
				Nils Liess	1:49.95
				Jérémy Desplanches	1:49.24
				Tiago Behar	1:50.90

Sources:^[7]^[8]

Final

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmer	Time	Total
	4	Great Britain	James Guy	1:45.09	6:59.43
			Tom Dean	1:45.28
			Matthew Richards	1:45.11
			Duncan Scott	1:43.95
	5	United States	Luke Hobson	1:45.55	7:00.78
			Carson Foster	1:45.31
			Drew Kibler	1:45.12
			Kieran Smith	1:44.80
	6	Australia	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	China	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	France	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	South Korea	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	Japan	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	Germany	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	Israel	Denis Loktev	1:48.16	7:10.22
			Gal Cohen Groumi	1:46.25
			Tomer Frankel	1:47.71
			Bar Soloveychik	1:48.10

Source:^[9]

References

↑ Tansey, Joe. "Olympic Swimming 2024: Men's 4x200M Freestyle Relay Medal Winners and Times". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
↑ "Tue 30 July: Explore the timetable of men 4x200m Freestyle Relay in swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics". Le Monde.fr. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
↑ Dillman, Lisa (1 August 2009). "Michael Phelps' world records not wearing well". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
↑ Michaelis, Vicky (31 July 2009). "Phelps earns relay gold medal, Peirsol sets 200m backstroke mark". USA Today. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
↑ Stallman, Jason (13 August 2008). "Phelps Adds 2 More Gold Medals". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
↑ Byrnes, Liz (17 July 2022). "FINA Confirm Doha 2024 Will Be Olympic Relay Qualification Meet; Only Top Three To Book Slots In Fukuoka". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
↑ "Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heats results" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
↑ "Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heats results summary" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
↑ "Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Finals results" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

Olympic champions insyd men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
1908: John Derbyshire, Paul Radmilovic, William Foster, Henry Taylor (GBR) 1912: Cecil Healy, Malcolm Champion, Leslie Boardman, Harold Hardwick (ANZ) 1920: Perry McGillivray, Pua Kealoha, Norman Ross, Duke Kahanamoku (USA) 1924: Johnny Weissmuller, Wally O'Connor, Harry Glancy, Ralph Breyer (USA) 1928: Johnny Weissmuller, Austin Clapp, Walter Laufer, George Kojac (USA) 1932: Masanori Yusa, Yasuji Miyazaki, Takashi Yokoyama, Hisakichi Toyoda (JPN) 1936: Masanori Yusa, Shigeo Sugiura, Shigeo Arai, Masaharu Taguchi (JPN) 1948: Wally Ris, Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf, Bill Smith (USA) 1952: Wayne Moore, Bill Woolsey, Ford Konno, Jimmy McLane (USA) 1956: Kevin O'Halloran, John Devitt, Murray Rose, Jon Henricks (AUS) 1960: George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy, Jeff Farrell (USA) 1964: Don Schollander, Steve Clark, Roy Saari, Gary Ilman (USA) 1968: Don Schollander, Mark Spitz, John Nelson, Stephen Rerych (USA) 1972: Mark Spitz, John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter (USA) 1976: Mike Bruner, Bruce Furniss, John Naber, Jim Montgomery (USA) 1980: Sergey Koplyakov, Vladimir Salnikov, Ivar Stukolkin, Andrey Krylov (URS) 1984: Mike Heath, David Larson, Jeff Float, Bruce Hayes (USA) 1988: Troy Dalbey, Matt Cetlinski, Doug Gjertsen, Matt Biondi (USA) 1992: Dmitry Lepikov, Vladimir Pyshnenko, Veniamin Tayanovich, Yevgeny Sadovyi, Aleksey Kudryavtsev, Yury Mukhin (EUN) 1996: Josh Davis, Joe Hudepohl, Brad Schumacher, Ryan Berube, Jon Olsen (USA) 2000: Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson, Bill Kirby, Grant Hackett, Daniel Kowalski (AUS) 2004: Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Peter Vanderkaay, Klete Keller, Dan Ketchum, Scott Goldblatt (USA) 2008: Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens, Peter Vanderkaay, David Walters, Erik Vendt, Klete Keller (USA) 2012: Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer, Ricky Berens, Michael Phelps, Charlie Houchin, Matt McLean, Davis Tarwater (USA) 2016: Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas, Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps, Clark Smith, Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz (USA) 2020: Tom Dean, James Guy, Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Calum Jarvis (GBR) 2024: James Guy, Tom Dean, Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Jack McMillan, Kieran Bird (GBR)

[1] Tansey, Joe. "Olympic Swimming 2024: Men's 4x200M Freestyle Relay Medal Winners and Times". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 21 August 2024.

[2] "Tue 30 July: Explore the timetable of men 4x200m Freestyle Relay in swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics". Le Monde.fr. Retrieved 21 August 2024.

[3] Dillman, Lisa (1 August 2009). "Michael Phelps' world records not wearing well". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

[4] Michaelis, Vicky (31 July 2009). "Phelps earns relay gold medal, Peirsol sets 200m backstroke mark". USA Today. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

[5] Stallman, Jason (13 August 2008). "Phelps Adds 2 More Gold Medals". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2013.

[6] Byrnes, Liz (17 July 2022). "FINA Confirm Doha 2024 Will Be Olympic Relay Qualification Meet; Only Top Three To Book Slots In Fukuoka". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

[7] "Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heats results" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

[8] "Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heats results summary" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

[9] "Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Finals results" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

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