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 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 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 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 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 Helge Meeuw (56.40), Johannes Neumann (1:02.35), Benjamin Starke (53.56), Michael Schubert (49.19) 3:41.50 16 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 Todorović (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 -- 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.