Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 26.^[1]

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 26, 2012 (heats and final)
Competitors	51 from 12 nations
Winning time	7:09.17
Medalists
Paul Biedermann Dimitri Colupaev Clemens Rapp Tim Wallburger    Germany   Gianluca Maglia Riccardo Maestri Samuel Pizzetti Filippo Magnini    Italy   Dominik Kozma Gergő Kis Péter Bernek László Cseh    Hungary

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

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

Results

Heats

12 nations participated in 2 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	7	Alex Di Giorgio Marco Belotti Gianluca Maglia Samuel Pizzetti	Italy	7:15.67	Q
2	1	5	Tim Wallburger Dimitri Colupaev Clemens Rapp Paul Biedermann	Germany	7:15.77	Q
3	1	2	Dominik Kozma Gergő Kis Péter Bernek László Cseh	Hungary	7:18.84	Q
4	2	6	Yoris Grandjean Glenn Surgeloose Louis Croenen Pieter Timmers	Belgium	7:19.48	Q
5	1	4	Stefan Šorak Dorde Marković Velimir Stjepanović Radovan Siljevski	Serbia	7:19.91	Q, NR
6	2	4	Pavel Medvetskiy Alexander Selin Evgeny Kulikov Viacheslav Andrusenko	Russia	7:22.44	Q
7	2	2	David Karasek Dominik Meichtry Alexandre Liess Jean-Baptiste Febo	Switzerland	7:22.48	Q
8	1	3	David Brandl Christian Scherübl Markus Rogan Dinko Jukić	Austria	7:23.75	Q
9	2	3	Tiago Venâncio Diogo Carvalho Luis Emanuel Vaz Mario Alexandre Pereira	Portugal	7:24.22
10	1	6	Michal Poprawa Radoslaw Bor Filip Bujoczek Pawel Werner	Poland	7:24.93
11	1	7	Tomas Havránek Martin Verner Květoslav Svoboda Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	7:27.47
12	2	5	Gard Kvale Marco Aldabe-Bomstad Ole Martin Ree Sindri Thor Jakobsson	Norway	7:33.64

Final

The final was held at 18:48.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Paul Biedermann Dimitri Colupaev Clemens Rapp Tim Wallburger	Germany	7:09.17
	4	Gianluca Maglia Riccardo Maestri Samuel Pizzetti Filippo Magnini	Italy	7:13.10
	3	Dominik Kozma Gergő Kis Péter Bernek László Cseh	Hungary	7:13.60
4	6	Dieter Dekoninck Glenn Surgeloose Louis Croenen Pieter Timmers	Belgium	7:15.58	NR
5	8	David Brandl Markus Rogan Christian Scherübl Dinko Jukić	Austria	7:19.32
6	7	Viacheslav Andrusenko Pavel Medvetskiy Alexander Selin Evgeny Kulikov	Russia	7:19.45
7	2	Dorde Marković Stefan Šorak Velimir Stjepanović Radovan Siljevski	Serbia	7:20.20
8	1	David Karasek Dominik Meichtry Alexandre Liess Jean-Baptiste Febo	Switzerland	7:22.30	NR

References

1. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.
2. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.
3. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.