# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The Men's 4x200 Freestyle Relay event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum on July 29, 2005, in Montreal, Canada. 22 teams swam in the event's preliminary heats in the day's morning session; with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event's final that evening.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were both:
    7:04.66, Australia, swum July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

## Results
### Final

| Place | Lane | Nation | Swimmers (split) | Time |
| 1 | 4 | USA | Michael Phelps (1:45.51), Ryan Lochte (1:48.22) Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.52), Klete Keller (1:46.33) | 7:06.58 |
| 2 | 3 | Canada | Brent Hayden (1:47.10), Colin Russell (1:48.60) Rick Say (1:46.84), Andrew Hurd (1:47.19) | 7:09.73 |
| 3 | 6 | Australia | Nicholas Sprenger (1:47.94), Patrick Murphy (1:49.04), Andrew Mewing (1:48.77), Grant Hackett (1:44.84) | 7:10.59 |
| 4 | 1 | Italy | Emiliano Brembilla (1:48.94), David Berbotto (1:48.57) Massimiliano Rosolino (1:48.07), Filippo Magnini (1:47.23) | 7:12.81 |
| 5 | 5 | | Yoshihiro Okumura (1:49.06), Sho Uchida (1:48.15) Daisuke Hosokawa (1:48.73), Takeshi Matsuda (1:47.66) | 7:13.60 |
| 6 | 8 | Russia | Dmitry Semenov (1:49.86), Andrey Kapralov (1:50.12) Maxim Kuznetsov (1:49.24), Yuri Prilukov (1:47.87) | 7:17.09 |
| 7 | 7 | | Paul Biedermann (1:49.16), Stefan Herbst (1:47.77) Jens Schreiber (1:50.25), Benjamin Starke (1:50.34) | 7:17.52 |
| 8 | 2 | Greece | Andreas Zisimos (1:50.36), Apostolos Antonopoulos (1:51.84) Dimitrios Manganas (1:49.08), Nikolaos Xylouris (1:48.76) | 7:20.04 |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Nation | Swimmers (split) | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H2 L4 | United States | Jayme Cramer (1:49.19), Peter Vanderkaay (1:47.73), Matthew McGinnis (1:48.30), Klete Keller (1:46.84) | 7:12.06 | q |
| 2 | H3 L3 | Japan | Sho Uchida (1:49.36), Hisayoshi Sato (1:48.93), Daisuke Hosokawa (1:48.80), Takeshi Matsuda (1:48.07) | 7:15.16 | q |
| 3 | H3 L5 | Canada | Andrew Hurd (1:49.81), Colin Russell (1:48.88), Brent Hayden (1:47.76), Rick Say (1:49.21) | 7:15.66 | q |
| 4 | H3 L4 | Australia | Andrew Mewing (1:49.97), Brendon Hughes (1:49.37), Adam Lucas (1:50.04), Nicholas Sprenger (1:47.07) | 7:16.45 | q |
| 5 | H1 L5 | Greece | Andreas Zisimos (1:50.04), Apostolos Antonopoulos (1:49.84), Dimitrios Manganas (1:48.46), Nikos Xylouris (1:48.23) | 7:16.57 | q |
| 6 | H2 L5 | Germany | Paul Biedermann (1:49.06), Benjamin Starke (1:50.39), Stefan Herbst (1:48.34), Jens Schreiber (1:48.93) | 7:16.72 | q |
| 7 | H1 L4 | Italy | David Berbotto (1:49.47), Matteo Pelliciari (1:48.82), Luca Pasteris (1:50.33), Massimiliano Rosolino (1:48.72) | 7:17.34 | q |
| 8 | H1 L3 | Russia | Maxim Kuznetsov (1:50.08), Dmitry Semenov (1:48.17), Evgeny Natsvin (1:50.37), Evgeny Lagunov (1:50.68) | 7:19.30 | q |
| 9 | H3 L8 | Poland | Paweł Korzeniowski (1:48.98), Lukasz Drzewinski (1:50.57), Michal Rokicki (1:51.48), Przemysław Stańczyk (1:49.46) | 7:20.49 | |
| 10 | H3 L6 | Ukraine | Sergiy Fesenko (1:50.42), Sergii Advena (1:50.28), Dmytro Vereitinov (1:51.27), Maksym Kokosha (1:49.45) | 7:21.42 | NR |
| 11 | H2 L3 | China | Peng Wu (1:50.55), Cheng Yu (1:49.74), Kunliang Zheng (1:51.87), Lin Zhang (1:49.97) | 7:22.13 | |
| 12 | H1 L2 | Netherlands | Robin van Aggele (1:50.31), Thomas Felten (1:52.13), Bas van Velthoven (1:53.51), Stefan Oosting (1:51.55) | 7:27.50 | |
| 13 | H1 L6 | Portugal | Tiago Venâncio (1:51.06), Luís Monteiro (1:53.17), Adriano Niz (1:51.55), Fabio Pereira (1:51.97) | 7:27.75 | |
| 14 | H2 L6 | Czech Republic | Michal Rubáček (1:51.29), Jiri Dub (1:52.81), Dominik Bartos (1:54.67), Květoslav Svoboda (1:49.50) | 7:28.27 | |
| 15 | H3 L2 | Lithuania | Saulius Binevičius (1:52.83), Paulius Andrijauskas (1:52.04), Paulius Viktoravicius (1:52.59), Pavel Suskov (1:53.11) | 7:30.57 | |
| 16 | H2 L1 | Chile | Maximiliano Schnettler (1:54.49), Giancarlo Zolezzi (1:53.37), Carlos Castro (1:57.19), Salvador Mallat (1:54.98) | 7:40.03 | |
| 17 | H2 L2 | Singapore | Bryan Tay (1:55.38), Jeffrey Su (1:58.82), Gary Tan (1:55.92), Mark Chay (1:56.27) | 7:46.39 | |
| 18 | H3 L7 | Uzbekistan | Timur Irgashev (1:54.84), Ibrahim Nazarov (1:56.49), Sergey Tsoy (1:58.77), Danil Bugakov (1:57.41) | 7:47.51 | |
| 19 | H1 L1 | Kuwait | Mansoor Al-Mansoor (1:57.38), Mohamed Madwa (2:00.30), Nawaf Al-Wazzan (1:57.18), Waleed Al-Qahtani (1:59.97) | 7:54.83 | |
| 20 | H2 L7 | Virgin Islands | Kieran Locke (1:58.00), Kevin Hensley (2:00.26), Morgan Locke (2:00.02), Josh Laban (1:59.18) | 7:57.46 | |
| 21 | H1 L7 | Macau | Wing Cheun Wong (1:58.00), Antonio Tong (2:05.01), Kuan Fong Lao (2:05.68), Chan Wai Ma (2:09.96) | 8:18.65 | |
| - | H3 L1 | Algeria | Nabil Kebbab (1:51.64), Mahrez Mebarek (-), Sofiane Daid (-), Aghiles Slimani (-) | DQ | |