Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	19 May 2021
Competitors	66 from 15 nations
Teams	15
Winning time	7:03.48
Medalists
Martin Malyutin Aleksandr Shchegolev Aleksandr Krasnykh Mikhail Vekovishchev Ivan Girev   Russia   Thomas Dean Matthew Richards James Guy Duncan Scott Max Litchfield Calum Jarvis   Great Britain   Stefano Ballo Matteo Ciampi Marco De Tullio Stefano Di Cola Manuel Frigo Filippo Megli   Italy

The Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 May 2021.

Records

Before the competition, the existing world, European 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
Championship record	Great Britain	7:05.32	Glasgow	5 August 2018

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Team	Time	Record
19 May	Final	Russia	7:03.48	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:26.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Great Britain	Max Litchfield (1:47.70) Calum Jarvis (1:48.47) Matthew Richards (1:46.69) James Guy (1:45.72)	7:08.58	Q
2	2	2	Russia	Mikhail Vekovishchev (1:46.91) Aleksandr Krasnykh (1:47.07) Ivan Girev (1:48.17) Aleksandr Shchegolev (1:47.53)	7:09.68	Q
3	1	6	Italy	Manuel Frigo (1:49.46) Matteo Ciampi (1:46.85) Filippo Megli (1:47.07) Marco De Tullio (1:46.88)	7:10.26	Q
4	2	5	France	Jonathan Atsu (1:48.26) Enzo Tesic (1:46.87) Roman Fuchs (1:48.97) Jordan Pothain (1:46.34)	7:10.44	Q
5	1	3	Switzerland	Nils Liess (1:49.10) Antonio Djakovic (1:45.71) Roman Mityukov (1:48.49) Noè Ponti (1:47.85)	7:11.15	Q
6	1	5	Ireland	Finn McGeever (1:49.60) Jack McMillan (1:46.78) Gerry Quinn (1:48.70) Jordan Sloan (1:47.65)	7:12.73	Q, NR
7	2	7	Spain	César Castro (1:47.46) Moritz Berg (1:47.77) Miguel Durán (1:49.19) Mario Mollà (1:48.66)	7:13.08	Q
8	2	6	Belgium	Alexandre Marcourt (1:48.24) Lorenz Weiremans (1:49.57) Thomas Thijs (1:48.57) Sebastien De Meulemeester (1:46.81)	7:13.19	Q
9	2	8	Israel	Tomer Frankel (1:50.20) Denis Loktev (1:48.36) Daniel Namir (1:48.58) Gal Cohen Groumi (1:48.65)	7:15.79
10	2	3	Hungary	Dominik Kozma (1:48.14) Gábor Zombori (1:50.96) Richárd Márton (1:49.54) Nándor Németh (1:47.41)	7:16.05
11	2	4	Poland	Jakub Majerski (1:49.24) Bartosz Piszczorowicz (1:49.52) Jan Świtkowski (1:50.73) Jan Hołub (1:46.82)	7:16.31
12	1	7	Serbia	Aleksa Bobar (1:51.25) Velimir Stjepanović (1:47.03) Vuk Čelić (1:51.32) Andrej Barna (1:48.30)	7:17.90
13	1	1	Greece	Konstantinos Englezakis (1:47.57) Dimitrios Markos (1:47.24) Dimitrios Negris (1:50.78) Apostolos Papastamos (1:52.51)	7:18.10
14	1	2	Turkey	Efe Turan (1:51.59) Doğa Çelik (1:52.68) Yiğit Aslan (1:51.92) Melikşah Düğen (1:51.33)	7:27.52
15	2	1	Slovakia	Jakub Poliačik (1:54.31) Richard Nagy (1:53.50) Ádám Halás (1:58.15) Matej Duša (1:58.43)	7:44.39

Final

The final was held at 19:50.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	5	Russia	Martin Malyutin (1:45.15) Aleksandr Shchegolev (1:45.39) Aleksandr Krasnykh (1:46.52) Mikhail Vekovishchev (1:46.42)	7:03.48	CR
	4	Great Britain	Thomas Dean (1:46.47) Matthew Richards (1:46.97) James Guy (1:45.88) Duncan Scott (1:45.29)	7:04.61
	3	Italy	Stefano Ballo (1:47.30) Matteo Ciampi (1:46.17) Marco De Tullio (1:46.02) Stefano Di Cola (1:46.56)	7:06.05
4	6	France	Jordan Pothain (1:46.91) Enzo Tesic (1:46.88) Mewen Tomac (1:46.96) Jonathan Atsu (1:46.49)	7:07.24
5	7	Ireland	Jack McMillan (1:47.46) Jordan Sloan (1:47.81) Finn McGeever (1:48.65) Gerry Quinn (1:48.08)	7:12.00	NR
6	1	Spain	César Castro (1:47.13 NR) Moritz Berg (1:48.34) Mario Mollà (1:49.08) Miguel Durán (1:48.94)	7:13.49
7	8	Belgium	Alexandre Marcourt (1:48.17) Sebastien De Meulemeester (1:47.57) Thomas Thijs (1:50.30) Lorenz Weiremans (1:50.35)	7:16.39
	2	Switzerland	Antonio Djakovic (1:46.75) Nils Liess (1:45.90) Noè Ponti (1:57.23) Roman Mityukov (DSQ)	Disqualified