Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	3 August
Competitors	81 from 19 nations
Teams	19
Winning time	3:12.23
Medalists
Evgeny Rylov Danila Izotov Vladimir Morozov Kliment Kolesnikov Vladislav Grinev Ivan Kuzmenko Sergey Fesikov Andrey Zhilkin   Russia   Luca Dotto Ivano Vendrame Lorenzo Zazzeri Alessandro Miressi   Italy   Jan Świtkowski Konrad Czerniak Jakub Kraska Kacper Majchrzak Jan Hołub   Poland

The Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August 2018.

Records

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

	Team	Time	Location	Date
World record	United States	3:08.24	Beijing	11 August 2008
European record	France	3:08.32	Beijing	11 August 2008
Championship record	France	3:11.64	Berlin	18 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 11:12.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.88) Ivano Vendrame (49.16) Lorenzo Zazzeri (48.59) Alessandro Miressi (48.66)	3:15.29	Q
2	2	7	Poland	Konrad Czerniak (49.14) Jan Hołub (49.05) Jakub Kraska (48.77) Jan Świtkowski (48.49)	3:15.45	Q
3	1	1	Hungary	Dominik Kozma (49.45) Nándor Németh (48.32) Péter Holoda (48.95) Richárd Bohus (48.83)	3:15.55	Q
4	1	4	Russia	Vladislav Grinev (48.67) Ivan Kuzmenko (49.55) Sergey Fesikov (48.28) Andrey Zhilkin (49.27)	3:15.77	Q
5	2	6	Serbia	Velimir Stjepanović (49.28) Uroš Nikolić (48.82) Andrej Barna (49.11) Ivan Lenđer (48.69)	3:15.90	Q
6	2	0	Netherlands	Stan Pijnenburg (49.34) Nyls Korstanje (49.10) Kyle Stolk (49.07) Jesse Puts (49.27)	3:16.78	Q
7	2	1	Germany	Damian Wierling (48.95) Marius Kusch (49.24) Peter Varjasi (49.48) Christoph Fildebrandt (49.12)	3:16.79	Q
8	2	8	Greece	Andreas Vazaios (49.58) Kristian Golomeev (48.04) Odysseus Meladinis (49.77) Apostolos Christou (49.49)	3:16.88	Q
9	2	9	France	Clément Mignon (50.07) Maxime Grousset (48.89) Jordan Pothain (49.93) Mehdy Metella (48.26)	3:17.15
10	2	4	Great Britain	Calum Jarvis (49.68) Craig McLean (49.41) David Cumberlidge (49.83) James Guy (48.39)	3:17.31
10	2	2	Sweden	Robin Hanson (49.72) Christoffer Carlsen (48.73) Björn Seeliger (49.44) Isak Eliasson (49.42)	3:17.31
12	1	2	Ireland	Shane Ryan (49.05) David Thompson (49.63) Jordan Sloan (49.13) Robert Powell (49.74)	3:17.55
13	2	5	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys (49.21) Simonas Bilis (48.62) Deividas Margevičius (50.25) Tomas Sungaila (49.80)	3:17.88
14	1	6	Belgium	Sebastien De Meulemeester (50.31) Emmanuel Vanluchene (49.25) Valentin Borisavljevic (49.94) Jasper Aerents (48.86)	3:18.36
15	2	3	Austria	Bernhard Reitshammer (50.26) Robin Gruenberger (49.78) Heiko Gigler (49.64) Alexander Trampitsch (49.23)	3:18.91
16	1	7	Israel	Meiron Cheruti (49.94) Denis Loktev (49.85) Ziv Kalontarov (50.19) David Gamburg (49.42)	3:19.40
17	1	8	Turkey	Yalım Acımış (50.58) Doğa Çelik (49.93) İskender Baslakov (49.89) Kemal Arda Gürdal (49.88)	3:20.28
18	1	5	Belarus	Viktar Krasochka (50.45) Mikita Tsmyh (50.19) Viktar Staselovich (50.36) Anton Latkin (50.35)	3:21.35
—	1	0	Estonia	Nikita Tsernosev (51.83) Kregor Zirk (49.79) Andri Aedma (51.12) Marko-Matteus Langel ()	Disqualified

Final

The final was held at 18:10.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	6	Russia	Evgeny Rylov (48.62) Danila Izotov (48.61) Vladimir Morozov (47.61) Kliment Kolesnikov (47.39)	3:12.23
	4	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.63) Ivano Vendrame (48.73) Lorenzo Zazzeri (48.55) Alessandro Miressi (46.99)	3:12.90
	5	Poland	Jan Świtkowski (48.68) Konrad Czerniak (49.04) Jakub Kraska (48.07) Kacper Majchrzak (48.41)	3:14.20
4	3	Hungary	Nándor Németh (48.61) Dominik Kozma (48.63) Péter Holoda (48.62) Richárd Bohus (48.65)	3:14.51
5	8	Greece	Andreas Vazaios (49.13) Apostolos Christou (48.75) Odysseus Meladinis (49.13) Kristian Golomeev (47.51)	3:14.52
6	7	Netherlands	Nyls Korstanje (48.87) Kyle Stolk (48.69) Jesse Puts (48.90) Stan Pijnenburg (48.14)	3:14.60
7	1	Germany	Damian Wierling (48.61) Marius Kusch (48.59) Peter Varjasi (49.17) Christoph Fildebrandt (48.75)	3:15.12
8	2	Serbia	Velimir Stjepanović (49.03) Uroš Nikolić (48.62) Andrej Barna (48.78) Ivan Lenđer (48.73)	3:15.16	NR