2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	19 December (heats and final)
Competitors	55 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	1:23.61
Medalists
Leonardo Deplano Lorenzo Zazzeri Manuel Frigo Alessandro Miressi   Italy   Andrey Minakov Vladimir Morozov Vladislav Grinev Aleksandr Shchegolev Daniil Markov   Jesse Puts Stan Pijnenburg Kenzo Simons Thom de Boer Thomas Verhoeven   Netherlands

The Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 19 December 2021.

Records

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

World record	United States (USA)	1:21.80	Hangzhou, China	14 December 2018
Competition record	United States (USA)	1:21.80	Hangzhou, China	14 December 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 09:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Italy	Leonardo Deplano (21.49) Alessandro Miressi (21.12) Manuel Frigo (21.39) Lorenzo Zazzeri (20.95)	1:24.95	Q
1	2	5	Russian Swimming Federation	Vladimir Morozov (21.33) Daniil Markov (21.47) Vladislav Grinev (21.01) Aleksandr Shchegolev (21.14)	1:24.95	Q
3	1	1	United States	Zach Apple (21.62) Hunter Tapp (21.53) Kieran Smith (21.20) Tom Shields (21.26)	1:25.61	Q
4	2	4	Netherlands	Stan Pijnenburg (21.52) Kenzo Simons (21.14) Thomas Verhoeven (22.04) Thom de Boer (21.00)	1:25.70	Q
5	1	7	China	Zhang Zhoujian (21.82) Wang Changhao (21.22) Pan Zhanle (21.60) Yang Jintong (21.94)	1:26.58	Q, NR
6	2	7	Belgium	Jasper Aerents (21.42) Jérôme Emo (22.00) Sebastien De Meulemeester (21.76) Thomas Thijs (21.64)	1:26.82	Q
7	1	6	Switzerland	Roman Mityukov (22.27) Thomas Hallock (21.74) Antonio Djakovic (21.60) Noè Ponti (21.44)	1:27.05	Q
8	2	8	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys (21.92) Simonas Bilis (21.15) Andrius Šidlauskas (22.23) Deividas Margevičius (21.98)	1:27.28	Q
9	2	1	South Korea	Hwang Sun-woo (21.72 NR) Kim Woo-min (22.21) Won Young-jun (22.20) Lee Ho-joon (22.43)	1:28.56	NR
10	2	2	Hong Kong	Ng Cheuk Yin (22.45) Ian Ho (20.96) Ng Yan Kin (23.10) Cheuk Ming Ho (22.53)	1:29.04	NR
11	1	3	Turkey	Emre Sakçı (21.61) Doruk Tekin (22.97) Rasim Oğulcan Gör (22.35) Metin Aydın (22.49)	1:29.42
12	2	6	Vietnam	Hồ Nguyễn Duy Khoa (23.83) Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn (23.76) Trần Hưng Nguyên (23.43) Phạm Thanh Bảo (25.11)	1:36.13
	1	5	Poland	Paweł Juraszek (21.93) Jakub Majerski Kacper Stokowski Marcin Cieślak	DSQ
	1	2	Slovakia		DNS
	2	3	Great Britain

Final

The final was held at 18:00.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	Italy	Leonardo Deplano (21.37) Lorenzo Zazzeri (20.42) Manuel Frigo (21.21) Alessandro Miressi (20.61)	1:23.61
	5	Russian Swimming Federation	Andrey Minakov (21.14) Vladimir Morozov (20.61) Vladislav Grinev (20.72) Aleksandr Shchegolev (21.28)	1:23.75
	6	Netherlands	Jesse Puts (21.30) Stan Pijnenburg (20.91) Kenzo Simons (21.16) Thom de Boer (20.41)	1:23.78
4	3	United States	Ryan Held (20.72) Shaine Casas (20.73) Zach Apple (21.06) Kieran Smith (21.30)	1:23.81
5	2	China	Zhang Zhoujian (21.67) Wang Changhao (20.88) Pan Zhanle (21.14) Yang Jintong (21.81)	1:25.50	NR
6	7	Belgium	Jasper Aerents (21.60) Jérôme Emo (22.16) Sebastien De Meulemeester (21.56) Thomas Thijs (21.62)	1:26.94
7	8	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys (21.94) Simonas Bilis (21.33) Andrius Šidlauskas (22.01) Deividas Margevičius (21.81)	1:27.09
8	1	Switzerland	Roman Mityukov (22.31) Thomas Hallock (21.43) Antonio Djakovic (21.61) Noè Ponti (21.75)	1:27.10