# Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30 March 2007 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The top-12 finishers from this race qualified for the event at the 2008 Olympics. 27 teams entered and swam the event.
The existing records when the event started were:
* World record (WR): 7:04.66, Australia (Hackett, Klim, Kirby, Thorpe), 27 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan.
* Championship record (CR): 7:04.66, Australia (Hackett, Klim, Kirby, Thorpe), Fukuoka 2001 (27 July 2001)

## Results
### Finals

| Place | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Note |
| 1 | USA | Michael Phelps (1:45.36), Ryan Lochte (1:45.86), Klete Keller (1:46.31), Peter Vanderkaay (1:45.71) | 7:03.24 | WR |
| 2 | Australia | Patrick Murphy (1:48.55), Andrew Mewing (1:47.52), Grant Brits (1:48.21), Kenrick Monk (1:45.77) | 7:10.05 | |
| 3 | Canada | Brian Johns (1:48.46), Brent Hayden (1:46.59), Rick Say (1:47.59), Andrew Hurd (1:48.06) | 7:10.70 | |
| 4 | Great Britain | David Carry (1:48.16), Robert Renwick (1:48.94), Simon Burnett (1:47.20), Ross Davenport (1:46.98) | 7:11.28 | |
| 5 | Italy | Filippo Magnini (1:47.66), Andrea Busato (1:50.21), Nicola Cassio (1:47.87), Massimiliano Rosolino (1:46.57) | 7:12.31 | |
| 6 | Russia | Evgeny Lagunov (1:48.82), Andrey Kapralov (1:48.86), Nikita Lobintsev (1:49.26), Sergey Perunin (1:47.92) | 7:14.86 | |
| 7 | Japan | Takeshi Matsuda (1:49.40), Yuji Sakurai (1:49.21), Takamitsu Kojima (1:50.10), Daisuke Hosokawa (1:48.75) | 7:17.46 | |
| 7 | Poland | Paweł Korzeniowski (1:48.43), Michal Rokicki (1:49.57), Lukasz Giminski (1:50.18), Przemysław Stańczyk (1:49.28) | 7:17.46 | |

### Heats

| Rank | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Note |
| 1 | USA | Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.67), Jayme Cramer (1:47.97), Dave Walters (1:47.75), Klete Keller (1:48.60) | 7:10.99 | Q Olympic |
| 2 | Australia | Kenrick Monk (1:49.13), Andrew Mewing (1:47.95), Grant Brits (1:48.73), Nick Ffrost (1:49.03) | 7:14.84 | Q Olympic |
| 3 | Canada | Rick Say (1:50.13), Brian Johns (1:48.06), Andrew Hurd (1:47.63), Brent Hayden (1:50.18) | 7:16.00 | Q Olympic |
| 4 | Italy | Massimiliano Rosolino (1:48.85), Andrea Busato (1:49.44), Christian Galenda (1:50.03), Nicola Cassio (1:48.93) | 7:17.42 | Q Olympic |
| 5 | Japan | Takeshi Matsuda (1:49.05), Yuji Sakurai (1:49.44), Takamitsu Kojima (1:50.03), Daisuke Hosokawa (1:48.93) | 7:17.45 | Q Olympic |
| 6 | Russia | Evgeny Lagunov (1:48.96), Vitaly Romanovich (1:50.63), Sergey Perunin (1:48.92), Nikita Lobintsev (1:49.63) | 7:18.14 | Q Olympic |
| 7 | Great Britain | Ross Davenport (1:50.34), Andrew Hunter (1:49.47), Robert Lang (1:50.07), Robert Renwick (1:48.94) | 7:18.82 | Q Olympic |
| 8 | Poland | Paweł Korzeniowski (1:49.01), Michal Rokicki (1:49.98), Lukasz Giminski (1:50.64), Przemysław Stańczyk (1:49.30) | 7:18.93 | Q Olympic |
| 9 | Germany | Paul Biedermann (1:49.59), Stefan Herbst (1:49.42), Benjamin Starke (1:49.64), Lars Conrad (1:50.57) | 7:19.22 | Olympic |
| 10 | France | Fabien Gilot (1:49.02), Sébastien Rouault (1:49.77), Nicolas Rostoucher (1:50.30), Grégory Mallet (1:50.63) | 7:19.72 | Olympic |
| 11 | Brazil | Thiago Pereira, Rodrigo Castro, Nicolas Oliveira, Armando Negreiros | 7:20.00 | Olympic |
| 12 | Greece | Andreas Zisimos, Georgios Demetis, Ioannis Giannoulis, Nikolaos Zylouris | 7:20.07 | Olympic |
| 13 | China | ZHANG Lin, ZHANG Enjian, YU Chenglong, CHEN Zuo | 7:20.36 | |
| 14 | Portugal | Tiago Venâncio, Fabio Pereira, Diogo Carvalho, Adriano Niz | 7:20.46 | |
| 15 | Netherlands | Olaf Wildeboer, Bas van Velthoven, Joost Reijns, Mitja Zastrow | 7:21.51 | |
| 16 | New Zealand | Moss Burmester, Andrew McMillan, Robert Voss, Michael Jack | 7:22.18 | |
| 17 | Austria | Dominik Koll, Dinko Jukić, David Brandl, Florian Janistyn | 7:22.58 | |
| 18 | Lithuania | Vytautas Janušaitis (NR), Saulius Binevičius, Paulius Andrijauskas, Paulius Viktoravicius | 7:25.37 | NR |
| 19 | Croatia | Dominik Straga, Saša Imprić, Mario Todorović, Mario Delač | 7:35.43 | |
| 20 | Chile | Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane, Maximiliano Schnettler, Benjamin Guzman Blanco, Salvador Mallat Arcaya | 7:41.80 | |
| 21 | Uzbekistan | Timur Irgashev, Ibrahim Nazarov, Petr Romashkin, Danil Bugakov | 7:47.20 | |
| 22 | Singapore | Zhirong Bryan Tay, Ju Wei Sng, Wen Hao Joshua Lim, Bing Ming Thum | 7:52.17 | |
| 23 | Indonesia | Albert Cristiadi Sutanto, Felix Cristiadi Sutanto, Brian Howard Ho, Andy Wibowo | 7:52.81 | |
| 24 | Peru | Sebastian Jahnsen, Gianmarco Mosto, Oscar Jahnsen, Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni | 7:55.97 | |
| 25 | Virgin Islands | Kieran Locke, Josh Laban, Kevin Hensley, Morgan Locke | 7:56.67 | |
| 26 | India | Rehan Poncha, Ankur Poseria, Amar Muralidharan, Virdhawal Khade | 8:01.49 | |
| 27 | Guam | Carlos Shimizu, Celestino Aguon, Hernan Bonsembiante, Christopher Duenas | 8:44.25 | |