Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

Men's 4×100 metre medley relay at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Date	1 April 2007
Teams	33
Winning time	3 minutes 34.93 seconds
Medalists
Matt Welsh Brenton Rickard Andrew Lauterstein Eamon Sullivan   Australia   Tomomi Morita Kosuke Kitajima Takashi Yamamoto Daisuke Hosokawa   Japan   Arkady Vyatchanin Dmitry Komornikov Nikolay Skvortsov Yevgeny Lagunov   Russia

Main article: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships

The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1 April 2007 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The top-12 finishers from this race qualified for the event at the 2008 Olympics.

The existing records when the event started were:

• World record (WR): 3:30.68, USA (Peirsol, Hansen, Crocker, Lezak), 21 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
• Championship record (CR): 3:31.54, (USA) (Peirsol, Hansen, Crocker, Lezak), Barcelona 2003 (27 July 2003)

Results

Finals

Place	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
1	Australia	Matt Welsh  (54.78) Brenton Rickard  (59.63) Andrew Lauterstein  (52.63) Eamon Sullivan  (47.89)	3:34.93
2	Japan	Tomomi Morita   (54.76) Kosuke Kitajima   (59.23) Takashi Yamamoto   (51.90) Daisuke Hosokawa   (49.27)	3:35.16
3	Russia	Arkady Vyatchanin   (54.08) Dmitry Komornikov   (1:00.65) Nikolay Skvortsov   (52.13) Evgeny Lagunov   (48.65)	3:35.51
4	South Africa	Gerhard Zandberg   (54.57) Cameron van der Burgh   (1:01.20) Lyndon Ferns   (52.12) Ryk Neethling   (48.03)	3:35.92
5	Great Britain	Liam Tancock   (54.08) James Gibson   (1:00.62) Matthew Bowe   (53.01) Simon Burnett   (48.47)	3:36.18
6	Italy	Damiano Lestingi   (55.58) Loris Facci   (1:01.44) Rudy Goldin   (52.63) Christian Galenda   (48.02)	3:37.67
7	France	Simon Dufour   (56.46) Hugues Duboscq   (1:00.61) Amaury Leveaux   (52.42) Alain Bernard   (48.36)	3:37.85
8	Romania	Răzvan Florea   (54.99) Valentin Preda   (1:00.98) Ioan Gherghel   (53.13) Octavian Guţu   (49.76)	3:38.86

Heats

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
1	Japan	Masafumi Yamaguchi  (55.21),  Kosuke Kitajima  (59.49), Takashi Yamamoto  (52.79), Daisuke Hosokawa  (49.55)	3:37.04	Q Olympic
2	Russia	Arkady Vyatchanin  (Russia),  Roman Sloudnov  (1:00.94), Nikolay Skvortsov  (52.34),  Andrey Kapralov  (48.69)	3:37.16	Q Olympic
3	South Africa	Gerhard Zandberg  (55.60),  Cameron van der Burgh  (1:01.54), Lyndon Ferns  (51.82),  Ryk Neethling  (48.21)	3:37.17	Q Olympic
4	Australia	Hayden Stoeckel  (55.18),  Brenton Rickard  (1:00.60), Michael Klim  (53.38),  Kenrick Monk  (49.42)	3:38.58	Q Olympic
5	France	Simon Dufour  (56.31),  Hugues Duboscq  (1:00.55), Amaury Leveaux  (52.78),  Alain Bernard  (48.99)	3:38.63	Q Olympic
6	Great Britain	Matthew Clay  (55.36),  Chris Cook  (1:01.06), Matthew Bowe  (52.66),  Simon Burnett  (49.56)	3:38.64	Q Olympic
7	Italy	Damiano Lestingi  (55.88),  Loris Facci  (1:00.87), Rudy Goldin  (52.91),  Christian Galenda  (49.13)	3:38.79	Q Olympic
8	Romania	Răzvan Florea  (55.41),  Valentin Preda  (1:01.16), Ioan Gherghel  (53.01),  Octavian Guţu  (49.75)	3:39.33	Q Olympic
9	Brazil	Thiago Pereira  (55.64),  Henrique Barbosa  (1:01.50), Gabriel Mangabeira  (53.53),  César Cielo Filho  (48.67)	3:39.34	Olympic
10	Ukraine	Andriy Oleynyk  (56.71),  Valeriy Dymo  (1:00.26), Andriy Serdinov  (52.64),  Yuriy Yegoshin  (50.10)	3:39.71	Olympic
11	New Zealand	Cameron Gibson  (55.70),  Glenn Snyders  (1:01.50), Corney Swanepoel  (52.46),  Mark Herring  (50.63)	3:40.29	Olympic
12	Belarus	Pavel Sankovich  (56.10),  Mikalai Vasilyeu  (1:02.34), Yauheni Lazuka  (52.81),  Stanislau Neviarouski  (49.38)	3:40.63	Olympic
13	China	OUYANG Kunpeng   (56.12),  LAI Zhongjian   (1:02.05), WANG Dong   (53.10),  CHEN Zuo   (50.06)	3:41.33
14	Lithuania	Vytautas Janušaitis   (55.73),  Giedrius Titenis   (1:01.76), Paulius Andrijauskas   (54.19),  Paulius Viktoravicius   (49.68)	3:41.36
15	Germany	Helge Meeuw   (56.40),  Johannes Neumann   (1:02.35), Benjamin Starke   (53.56),  Michael Schubert   (49.19)	3:41.50
16	Canada	Matt Rose   (57.22),  Mike Brown   (1:02.04), Brian Johns   (54.04),  Brent Hayden   (48.64)	3:41.94
17	Norway	Kim Torry Simmenes   (57.67),  Alexander Dale Oen   (59.92), Aleksander Hetland   (55.37),  Robin Dale Oen   (49.92)	3:42.88
18	Israel	Ehud Segal   (56.33),  Michael Malul   (1:03.32), Guy Marcus Barnea   (53.28),  Shai Liwnat   (50.03)	3:42.96
19	Croatia	Ivan Tolic   (58.05),  Nikola Delic   (1:03.94), Mario Todorovic   (53.44),  Dominik Straga   (50.93)	3:46.36
20	Kazakhstan	Stanislav Ossinskiy   (57.71),  Yevgeniy Ryzhkov   (1:04.37), Stanislav Kuzmin   (55.09),  Vitaliy Khan   (50.17)	3:47.34
21	Greece	Georgios Demetis   (57.28),  Romanos Alyfantis   (1:02.42), Ioannis Giannoulis   (58.55),  Andreas Zisimos   (50.05)	3:48.30
22	Uzbekistan	Danil Bugakov   (58.44),  Andrey Morkovin   (1:06.00), Oleg Lyashko   (55.20),  Petr Romashkin   (51.38)	3:51.02
23	Indonesia	Felix Sutanto   (59.55),  Billy Arfianto   (1:06.47), Andy Wibowo   (56.00),  Albert Sutanto   (53.74)	3:55.76
24	Singapore	ONG Wei Shien Zach   (1:01.14),  TAN Jin Leonard   (1:06.46), TAN Xue-Wei Nicholas   (57.62),  TAY Zhirong Bryan   (52.17)	3:57.39
25	Peru	Carlos Eduardo Gil   (1:02.29),  Gianmarco Mosto   (1:08.64), Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni   (55.73),  Nikola Ustadvich   (55.33)	4:01.99
26	India	Sandeep Nagar Anthal   (1:01.83),  Rehan Poncha   (1:12.63), Ankur Poseria   (55.49),  Virdhawal Khade   (54.26)	4:04.21
27	Guam	Carlos Shimizu   (1:15.08),  Celestino Aguon   (1:10.92), Hernan Bonsembiante   (1:04.61),  Christopher Duenas   (54.67)	4:25.28
28	Guyana	Onan Thom   (1:04.12),  Niall Roberts   (1:24.17), Jamaal Sobers   (1:06.78),  Yannick Roberts   (59.60)	4:34.67
--	Virgin Islands		DNS
--	Nigeria		DNS
--	Switzerland	Flori Lang,  Dimitri Waeber, Damien Courtois,  Dominik Meichtry	DQ
--	Kenya	David Dunford,  Amar Shah, Jason Dunford,  Rama Vyombo	DQ
--	USA	Ryan Lochte,  Scott Usher, Ian Crocker,  Neil Walker	DQ

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

References

• Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-06-30.
• Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-06-30.