Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Date	26 July 2009
Teams	41
Winning time	3:09.21
Medalists
United States Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Matt Grevers, Nathan Adrian, Garrett Weber-Gale*, Ricky Berens*, Cullen Jones*    Russia Yevgeny Lagunov, Andrey Grechin, Danila Izotov, Alexander Sukhorukov, Nikita Konovalov*    France Fabien Gilot, Alain Bernard, Grégory Mallet, Frédérick Bousquet, Amaury Leveaux*, William Meynard* * Swimmers who participated in the heats only

The men's 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships took place on 26 July 2009 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World Record	United States (USA) Michael Phelps (47.51) Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02) Cullen Jones (47.65) Jason Lezak (46.06)	3:08.24	Beijing, China	11 August 2008
Championship Record	United States (USA) Michael Phelps (48.42) Neil Walker (48.31) Cullen Jones (48.67) Jason Lezak (47.32)	3:12.72	Melbourne, Australia	25 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
26 July	Heat 3	Matthew Abood (48.35) Andrew Lauterstein (48.42) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.82) Matt Targett (48.07)	Australia (AUS)	3:12.58	CR
26 July	Heat 4	Amaury Leveaux (48.37) Grégory Mallet (47.78) William Meynard (48.11) Fabien Gilot (47.12)	France (FRA)	3:11.38	CR
26 July	Heat 5	César Cielo Filho (47.39) CR Nicolas Oliveira (47.51) Guilherme Roth (48.15) Fernando Silva (48.21)	Brazil (BRA)	3:11.26	CR
26 July	Final	Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)	United States (USA)	3:09.21	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	5	6	Brazil	César Cielo Filho (47.39) CR, AM Nicolas Oliveira (47.51) Guilherme Roth (48.15)   Fernando Silva (48.21)	3:11.26	CR, SA
2	4	4	France	Amaury Leveaux (48.37) Grégory Mallet (47.78) William Meynard (48.11) Fabien Gilot (47.12)	3:11.38
3	4	3	Great Britain	Adam Brown (49.01) Simon Burnett (47.57) Liam Tancock (47.74) Ross Davenport (47.30)	3:11.62	NR
4	5	4	United States	Garrett Weber-Gale (48.30) Matt Grevers (47.55) Ricky Berens (48.19) Cullen Jones (47.60)	3:11.64
5	5	5	Italy	Francesco Donin (48.79) Alessandro Calvi (47.88) Marco Orsi (47.89) Christian Galenda (47.20)	3:11.76
6	5	3	South Africa	Lyndon Ferns (47.94) AF Darian Townsend (48.02) Roland Mark Schoeman (48.54) Graeme Moore (47.58)	3:12.08	AF
7	3	4	Australia	Matthew Abood (48.35) Andrew Lauterstein (48.32) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.84) Matt Targett (48.07)	3:12.58
8	3	3	Russia	Yevgeny Lagunov (48.48) Danila Izotov (48.21) Nikita Konovalov (48.46) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.63)	3:12.78	NR
9	3	5	Canada	Brent Hayden (47.77) Joel Greenshields (48.36) Colin Russell (48.11) Stefan Hirniak (48.72)	3:12.96
10	4	5	Sweden	Stefan Nystrand (47.52) NR Lars Frölander (48.12) Simon Sjödin (48.62) Petter Stymne (49.12)	3:13.38
11	4	2	Japan	Takuro Fujii (48.87) Rammaru Harada (49.37) Yoshihiro Okumura (47.93) Makoto Ito (49.46)	3:15.63	AS
12	5	2	Switzerland	Dominik Meichtry (49.02) Flori Lang (48.15) Gregory Widmer (48.63) Aurelien Kunzi (50.33)	3:16.13	NR
13	4	6	Poland	Konrad Czerniak (48.61) Marcin Tarczyński (48.95) Łukasz Gąsior (48.80) Mateusz Stawinski (49.99)	3:16.35
14	4	8	Lithuania	Vytautas Janušaitis (49.50) Paulius Viktoravičius (48.01) Mindaugas Sadauskas (48.90) Mindaugas Margis (50.06)	3:16.47	NR
15	3	6	China	Chen Zuo (49.70) Lü Zhiwu (49.04) Shi Tengfei (49.27) Cai Li (49.07)	3:17.08
16	3	2	Venezuela	Crox Acuña (49.95) Octavio Alesi (49.69) Roberto Gómez (48.84) Albert Subirats (49.31)	3:17.79	NR
17	2	1	Belgium	Pholien Systermans (50.19) Yoris Grandjean (49.12) Pierre Yves Romanini (49.43) Glenn Surgeloose (49.23)	3:17.97	NR
18	1	4	Czech Republic	Michal Rubáček (49.46) Martin Verner (48.87) Jan Šefl (50.11) Květoslav Svoboda (50.23)	3:18.67	NR
19	3	0	Ireland	Barry Murphy (49.98) NR Ryan Harrison (50.87) Conor Leaney (49.51) Karl Burdis (51.41)	3:21.77	NR
20	5	7	Kazakhstan	Stanislav Kuzmin (50.69) Alexandr Sklyar (50.13) Oleg Rabota (51.34) Artur Dilman (50.79)	3:22.95
21	4	1	Uzbekistan	Daniil Tulupov (50.89) Danil Bugakov (50.10) Dmitriy Shvetsov (51.36) Petr Romashkin (51.20)	3:23.55
22	5	0	Iran	Emin Noshadi (52.23) Pasha Vahdati Rad (51.37) Saeid Malekae Ashtiani (51.69) Mohammad Bidaryan (51.09)	3:26.38
23	3	7	Barbados	Shawn Clarke (50.40) NR Martyn Forde (51.85) Terrence Haynes (50.67) Vaughn Forsythe (54.23)	3:27.15	NR
24	5	1	Philippines	Miguel Molina (51.84) Kendrick Uy (53.29) Charles William Walker (51.35) Daniel Coakley (51.53)	3:28.01
25	5	8	Singapore	Lim Clement (52.35) Lim Wen Hao Joshua (51.16) Tan Xue Wei Nicholas (52.21) Su Shirong Jeffrey (52.40)	3:28.12
26	3	8	India	Arjun Jayaprakash (55.25) Rehan Poncha (55.71) Virdhawal Khade (50.78) Ashwin Menon (53.50)	3:35.24
27	3	1	Kuwait	Mohammed Madouh (52.58) Humoud Alhumoud (54.62) Abdulrahman Albader (54.12) Marzouq Alsalem (54.29)	3:35.61
28	4	0	United Arab Emirates	Obaid Al Jesmi (53.54) Mubarak Al-Besher (56.03) Saeed Al Jesmi (54.84) Mohammed Al Ghaferi (53.54)	3:37.95
29	4	9	Senegal	Papa Madiop Ndong (55.79) Matar Samb (54.82) Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane (54.84) Malick Fall (52.87)	3:38.32
30	2	7	Nigeria	Samson Opuakpo (54.06) Eric Williams (56.55) Pepelate Gbagi (55.73) Yellow Yeiyah (55.05)	3:41.39
31	2	4	Armenia	Sergey Pevnev (58.67) Andranik Harutyunyan (53.50) Khachik Plavchyan (58.48) Mikayel Koloyan (51.17)	3:41.82
32	2	3	Albania	Endi Babi (54.87) Mario Sulkja (58.16) Eduart Cane (56.48) Sidni Hoxha (52.62)	3:42.13
33	1	5	Malta	Neil Agius (55.41) Edward Caruana Dingli (54.90) Andrea Agius (56.05) Mark Sammut (56.33)	3:42.69
34	3	9	Macau	Lao Kuan Fong (54.26) Antonio Tong (55.86) Wong Wing Cheung Victor (54.93) Chong Cheok Kuan (58.24)	3:43.29
35	2	5	Mauritius	Ronny Vencatachellum (56.24) Mathieu Marquet (57.41) Jean Hugues Gregoire (54.96) Jean Marie Froget (56.47)	3:45.08
36	1	3	Mozambique	Leonel Matonse (55.50) Ivo Chilaule (55.62) Gerusio Matonse (58.30) Patricio Vera (56.00)	3:45.42
37	2	6	Papua New Guinea	Ryan Pini (50.13) Daniel Kevin Pryke (56.59) Ian Bond Wolongkatop Nakmai (1:02.57) Peter Popahun Pokawin (56.48)	3:45.77
38	2	2	Northern Mariana Islands	Eli Ebenezer Wong (56.03) Cooper Graf (1:01.94) Shin Kimura (1:03.72) Kailan Staal (56.14)	3:57.83
-	2	8	Croatia		DNS
-	5	9	Saudi Arabia		DNS
-	4	7	Colombia		DQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
	6	United States	Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)	3:09.21	CR
	8	Russia	Yevgeny Lagunov (47.90) Andrey Grechin (47.00) Danila Izotov (47.23) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39)	3:09.52	NR
	5	France	Fabien Gilot (47.73) Alain Bernard (46.46) Grégory Mallet (48.28) Frédérick Bousquet (47.42)	3:09.89
4	4	Brazil	César Cielo Filho (47.09) CR, AM Nicolas Oliveira (47.39) Guilherme Roth (48.15) Fernando Silva (48.17)	3:10.80	SA
5	2	Italy	Alessandro Calvi (49.03) Christian Galenda (47.60) Marco Orsi (47.91) Filippo Magnini (47.39)	3:11.93
5	7	South Africa	Lyndon Ferns (48.32) Graeme Moore (48.05) Darian Townsend (48.05) Roland Mark Schoeman (47.51)	3:11.93	AF
7	3	Great Britain	Adam Brown (48.66) Simon Burnett (47.50) Liam Tancock (47.81) Ross Davenport (48.12)	3:12.09
8	1	Australia	Matthew Abood (48.79) Matt Targett (47.49) Andrew Lauterstein (48.41) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.71)	3:12.40

External links

• Preliminary Results
• Final Results