Record Prima di questa competizione, il record del mondo (WR) e il record olimpico (OR) erano i seguenti.
7'03"24 Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Klete Keller e Peter Vanderkaay 30 marzo 2007Melbourne, Australia 7'07"05 Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson e Bill Kirby 19 settembre 2000Sydney, Australia
Durante l'evento sono stati migliorati i seguenti record:
Data Evento Atleta Nazione Tempo Record 12 agosto 2ª batteria Walters, Berens, Vendt e Keller 7'04"66 13 agosto Finale Phelps, Lochte, Berens e Vanderkaay 6'58"56
Batterie Si sono svolte 2 batterie di qualificazione. Le prime 8 squadre si sono qualificate direttamente per la finale.
Martedì 12 agosto Pos Batteria Corsia Nazione Atleti Tempo Note 1 2 4 David Walters 1:46.57Ricky Berens 1:45.47Erik Vendt 1:47.11Klete Keller 1:45.51 7:04.66 Q OR 2 1 4 Nicola Cassio 1:48.76Marco Belotti 1:45.82Emiliano Brembilla 1:46.46Massimiliano Rosolino 1:46.80 7:07.84 Q ER 3 1 6 Mikhail Polishchuk 1:48.54Danila Izotov 1:47.24Nikita Lobintsev 1:46.84Alexander Sukhorukov 1:45.24 7:07.86 Q 4 2 3 David Carry 1:46.47Andrew Hunter 1:46.88Ross Davenport 1:47.15Robbie Renwick 1:47.39 7:07.89 Q 5 1 5 Bryan Johns 1:47.44Rick Say 1:47.24Adam Sioui 1:47.05Andrew Hurd 1:46.31 7:08.04 Q 6 2 5 Nick Ffrost 1:47.47Grant Brits 1:46.84Kirk Palmer 1:47.02Leith Brodie 1:47.08 7:08.41 Q 7 1 7 Yoshihiro Okumura 1:47.19Sho Uchida 1:46.59Yasunori Mononobe 1:47.29Hisato Matsumoto 1:48.05 7:09.12 Q AS 8 2 2 Jean Basson 1:45.99Darian Townsend 1:46.14Jan Venter 1:48.32Sebastien Rousseau 1:50.46 7:10.91 Q AF 9 2 6 Dominik Koll 1:47.72David Brandl 1:46.45Florian Janistyn 1:50.48Markus Rogan 1:46.80 7:11.45 10 1 2 Lin Zhang 1:46.13Enjian Zhang 1:49.31Yang Sun 1:48.73Haoran Shi 1:49.40 7:13.57 10 1 8 Clément Lefert 1:48.34Sebastien Bodet 1:49.47Matthieu Madelaine 1:49.87Amaury Leveaux 1:45.89 7:13.57 12 1 1 Paul Biedermann 1:47.48Benjamin Starke 1:48.51Christian Kubusch 1:49.28Stefan Herbst 1:48.65 7:13.92 13 2 1 Gergő Kis 1:47.39Tamas Kerekjarto 1:49.09Dominik Kozma 1:49.26Norbert Kovács 1:48.40 7:14.14 14 2 7 Lukasz Gasior 1:49.43Lukasz Wojt 1:48.54Michal Rokicki 1:51.14Przemysław Stańczyk 1:48.98 7:18.09 15 2 8 Andreas Zisimos 1:49.05Nikolaos Xylouris 1:49.53Ioannis Giannoulis 1:48.96Vasileios Demetis 1:50.72 7:18.26 16 1 3 Nicolas Oliveira 1:49.49Rodrigo Castro 1:48.31Phillip Morrison 1:49.35Lucas Salatta 1:52.39 7:19.54
Finale Mercoledì 13 agosto Pos Corsia Nazione Atleti Tempo Note 1 4 Michael Phelps (1:43.31)Ryan Lochte (1:44.28)Ricky Berens (1:46.29)Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68) 6:58.56 WR 2 3 Nikita Lobintsev (1:46.64)Evgenij Lagunov (1:46.56)Danila Izotov (1:45.85)Alexander Sukhorukov (1:44.65) 7:03.70 ER 3 7 Patrick Murphy (1:45.95)Grant Hackett (1:45.87)Grant Brits (1:47.13)Nick Frost (1:46.03) 7:04.98 4 5 Marco Belotti (1:47.37)Emiliano Brembilla (1:47.33)Massimiliano Rosolino (1:46.53)Filippo Magnini (1:44.12) 7:05.35 5 2 Colin Russell (1:46.89)Brian Johns (1:47.61)Brent Hayden (1:44.42)Andrew Hurd (1:46.65) 7:05.77 6 6 David Carry (1:46.68)Andrew Hunter (1:46.73)Robbie Renwick (1:46.16)Ross Davemport (1:46.25) 7:05.92 7 1 Yoshihiro Okumura (1:46.61)Sho Uchida (1:47.36)Yasunori Mononobe (1:47.72)Hisato Matsumoto (1:48.62) 7:10.31 8 8 Jean Basson (1:46.67)Darian Townsend (1:47.24)Jan Venter (1:49.56)Sebastian Rosseau (1:49.55) 7:13.02
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