The Men's 4 × 100 Freestyle Relay at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum on 15 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 17 nations swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning, with the top-8 finishers advancing to the final that evening.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were: Record Nation Swimmers Time Location DateWR Nathan Adrian (45.08)Matt Grevers (44.68)Garrett Weber-Gale (47.43)Michael Phelps (46.11) 3:03.30 Manchester 19 December 2009 CR Ryan Lochte (47.09)Bryan Lundquist (46.64)Nathan Adrian (46.57)Doug Van Wie (48.14) 3:08.44 Manchester 10 April 2008
The following records were established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationTimeWRCR 15 December 2010 Heats Evgeny Lagunov (46.89)Alexander Sukhorukov (46.82)Nikita Konovalov (47.38)Sergey Fesikov (46.69) 3:07.78 CR 15 December 2010 Final Alain Bernard (46.78)Frédérick Bousquet (45.92)Fabien Gilot (45.75)Yannick Agnel (46.33) 3:04.78 CR
Results Heats Rank Heat Lane Nation Name Time Notes 1 2 5 Yevgeny Lagunov (46.89)Alexander Sukhorukov (46.82)Nikita Konovalov (47.38)Sergey Fesikov (46.69) 3:07.78 Q, CR 2 2 4 James Magnussen (47.30)Matthew Abood (46.48)Kyle Richardson (47.05)Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.23) 3:08.06 Q 3 3 4 Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02)Ricky Berens (47.24)David Walters (47.28)Nathan Adrian (47.15)3:08.69 Q 4 1 4 Nicholas Santos (48.29)César Cielo (45.76)Marcelo Chierighini (47.31)Nicolas Oliveira (47.35) 3:08.71 Q 5 3 7 Luca Dotto (47.06)Luca Leonardi (47.48)Christian Galenda (47.66)Marco Orsi (47.65) 3:09.97 Q 6 1 2 Boris Steimetz (47.94)Alain Bernard (46.67)William Meynard (48.19)Frédérick Bousquet (47.17) 3:12.63 Q 7 3 2 Shi Tengfei (48.86)Chen Zuo (48.45)Shi Runqiang (47.74)Lü Zhiwu (47.58) 3:12.63 Q 8 3 5 Stefan Nystrand (47.53)Robin Andréasson (48.40)Simon Sjödin (48.32)David Ernstsson (48.52) 3:12.77 Q 9 1 5 Richard Hortness (48.38)Hassaan Abdel Khalik (48.38)Jake Tapp (48.09)Joe Bartoch (49.20) 3:14.05 10 2 2 Michal Rubáček (48.44)Martin Verner (48.12)Tomáš Fucík (49.97)Jan Šefl (48.75) 3:15.28 11 2 3 Yuan Ping (51.00)Hsu Chi-Chieh (50.87)Lin Yuan (51.30)Lin Shih-Chieh (51.95) 3:25.12 12 1 3 Yousef Alaskari (52.06)Mohammed Madouh (50.86)Abdullah Altuwaini (51.00)Sauod Altayar (54.44) 3:28.36 13 2 7 Andrea Agius (52.66)Andrew Chetcuti (51.49)Mark Sammut (53.70)Neil Agius (53.66) 3:31.51 14 2 6 Obaid Al Jasmi (52.37)Saeed Al Jasmi (53.69)Bakheet Al Jasmi (54.42)Faisal Al Jasmi (55.24) 3:35.72 15 1 6 Lao Kuan Fong (51.49)Chou Kit (55.54)Tong Antonio (54.72)Ngou Pok Man (54.87) 3:36.62 – 3 3 DNS – 3 6 DNS
Final Rank Lane Nation Name Time Notes 7 Alain Bernard (46.78)Frédérick Bousquet (45.92)Fabien Gilot (45.75)Yannick Agnel (46.33) 3:04.78 CR 4 Yevgeny Lagunov (46.68)Sergey Fesikov (45.87)Nikita Lobintsev (45.79)Danila Izotov (46.48) 3:04.82 6 Nicholas Santos (47.33)César Cielo (45.08)Marcelo Chierighini (47.02)Nicolas Oliveira (46.31) 3:05.74 SA 4 3 Nathan Adrian (47.35)Garrett Weber-Gale (45.88)Ricky Berens (46.79)Ryan Lochte (46.08) 3:06.10 5 5 James Magnussen (47.18)Matthew Abood (46.76)Kyle Richardson (46.09)Tommaso D'Orsogna (46.15) 3:06.18 6 2 Luca Dotto (47.09)Marco Orsi (46.22)Luca Leonardi (47.08)Filippo Magnini (46.17) 3:06.56 7 1 Shi Tengfei (49.07)Jiang Haiqi (46.85)Shi Runqiang (47.97)Lü Zhiwu (47.14) 3:11.03 8 8 Stefan Nystrand (46.70)Robin Andréasson (48.10)Simon Sjödin (48.11)Lars Frölander (48.38) 3:11.29
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