Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August 2018.[1][2]

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	5 August
Competitors	58 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	7:05.32
Medalists
Calum Jarvis Duncan Scott Thomas Dean James Guy Stephen Milne Cameron Kurle    Great Britain   Mikhail Vekovishchev Martin Malyutin Danila Izotov Mikhail Dovgalyuk Viacheslav Andrusenko    Russia   Alessio Proietti Colonna Filippo Megli Matteo Ciampi Mattia Zuin Stefano Di Cola    Italy

Records

Before the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Team	Time	Location	Date
World record	United States	6:58.55	Rome	31 July 2009
European record	Russia	6:59.15	Rome	31 July 2009
Championship record	Russia	7:06.71	Budapest	14 August 2010

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Nation	Time	Record
5 August	Final	Great Britain	7:05.32	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 10:48.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	1	Russia	Martin Malyutin (1:47.54) Viacheslav Andrusenko (1:48.14) Danila Izotov (1:46.18) Mikhail Vekovishchev (1:47.14)	7:09.00	Q
2	1	2	Great Britain	Stephen Milne (1:48.64) Cameron Kurle (1:49.08) Thomas Dean (1:47.64) Calum Jarvis (1:46.55)	7:11.91	Q
3	1	5	Italy	Stefano Di Cola (1:49.58) Matteo Ciampi (1:47.11) Alessio Proietti Colonna (1:47.76) Mattia Zuin (1:48.01)	7:12.46	Q
4	1	1	Germany	Poul Zellmann (1:48.05) Marius Zobel (1:49.83) Henning Mühlleitner (1:48.03) Jacob Heidtmann (1:46.84)	7:12.75	Q
5	2	5	Netherlands	Kyle Stolk (1:48.71) Stan Pijnenburg (1:48.86) Ferry Weertman (1:48.96) Maarten Brzoskowski (1:48.33)	7:14.86	Q
6	1	6	France	Alexandre Derache (1:49.07) Jordan Pothain (1:48.50) Roman Fuchs (1:48.52) Lorys Bourelly (1:49.17)	7:15.26	Q
7	2	7	Sweden	Victor Johansson (1:48.67) Robin Hanson (1:48.45) Gustaf Dalman (1:49.55) Adam Paulsson (1:48.88)	7:15.55	Q
8	2	6	Spain	César Castro (1:48.35) Alex Ramos (1:48.76) Miguel Durán (1:49.91) Marc Sánchez (1:48.63)	7:15.65	Q
9	2	3	Hungary	Balázs Holló (1:50.10) Ádám Telegdy (1:48.93) Benjámin Grátz (1:50.21) Bence Biczó (1:48.95)	7:18.19
10	1	3	Belgium	Sebastien De Meulemeester (1:49.15) Alexandre Marcourt (1:51.25) Thomas Thijs (1:49.67) Lorenz Weiremans (1:48.68)	7:18.75
11	1	7	Israel	Daniel Namir (1:50.19) Denis Loktev (1:48.83) David Gamburg (1:50.91) Yonatan Batsha (1:52.78)	7:22.71
12	2	4	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys (1:49.36) Simonas Bilis (1:50.31) Tomas Sungaila (1:52.50) Povilas Strazdas (1:51.34)	7:23.51
	1	4	Poland	Jan Hołub (1:49.24) Filip Zaborowski (1:49.17) Jakub Kraska Kacper Majchrzak	DSQ

Final

The final was held at 18:52.[4]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	3	Great Britain	Calum Jarvis (1:47.17) Duncan Scott (1:45.48) Thomas Dean (1:47.07) James Guy (1:45.60)	7:05.32	CR
	4	Russia	Mikhail Vekovishchev (1:46.78) Martin Malyutin (1:46.84) Danila Izotov (1:46.86) Mikhail Dovgalyuk (1:46.18)	7:06.66
	5	Italy	Alessio Proietti Colonna (1:48.20) Filippo Megli (1:45.44) Matteo Ciampi (1:46.49) Mattia Zuin (1:47.45)	7:07.58
4	6	Germany	Damian Wierling (1:48.86) Henning Mühlleitner (1:46.94) Poul Zellmann (1:47.57) Jacob Heidtmann (1:45.94)	7:09.31
5	8	Spain	César Castro (1:47.85) Alex Ramos (1:48.14) Marc Sánchez (1:48.63) Miguel Durán (1:48.45)	7:13.07
6	7	France	Jordan Pothain (1:48.94) Alexandre Derache (1:48.32) Roman Fuchs (1:47.88) Jonathan Atsu (1:47.98)	7:13.12
7	2	Netherlands	Kyle Stolk (1:48.46) Ferry Weertman (1:48.75) Stan Pijnenburg (1:48.16) Maarten Brzoskowski (1:48.09)	7:13.46
8	1	Sweden	Victor Johansson (1:48.68) Robin Hanson (1:48.56) Gustaf Dalman (1:47.84) Adam Paulsson (1:48.95)	7:14.03

References

1. Schedule
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Final results