2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
The Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships was held on 14 December 2018.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
| World record Championship record | Nikita Lobintsev Danila Izotov Yevgeny Lagunov Alexander Sukhorukov | 6:49.04 | Dubai, UAE | 16 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 14 December | Final | Luiz Altamir Melo Fernando Scheffer Leonardo Coelho Santos Breno Correia | 6:46.81 | , CR |
Results
Heats
The heats were started on 14 December at 11:10.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Mikhail Dovgalyuk Ivan Girev Vladislav Grinev Aleksandr Krasnykh | 6:51.17 | Q | |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Kieran Smith Jack Conger Jacob Pebley Zach Harting | 6:52.81 | Q | |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | Filippo Megli Matteo Ciampi Alessio Proietti Colonna Mattia Zuin | 6:55.97 | Q | |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Ji Xinjie Sun Yang Shang Keyuan Qian Zhiyong | 6:56.08 | Q | |
| 5 | 2 | 4 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes Jack Gerrard Louis Townsend Alexander Graham | 6:57.74 | Q | |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Fernando Scheffer Luiz Altamir Melo Leonardo de Deus Breno Correia | 6:58.26 | Q | |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Gustaf Dahlman Simon Sjödin Adam Paulsson Christoffer Carlsen | 6:59.91 | Q | |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | Miguel Nascimento Alexis Santos Gabriel Lópes Diogo Carvalho | 7:02.19 | Q | |
| 9 | 2 | 3 | Fuyu Yoshida Tomoya Takeuchi Daiya Seto Hiromasa Fujimori | 7:02.65 | R | |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | Danas Rapšys Deividas Margevičius Andrius Šidlauskas Tadas Duškinas | 7:03.39 | R | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Bradlee Ashby Daniel Hunter Matthew Hyde Wilrich Coetzee | 7:08.15 | ||
| 12 | 1 | 6 | Wang Hsing-hao Wang Kuan-hung Huang Yen-hsin An Ting-yao | 7:10.02 | ||
| 13 | 2 | 7 | Antani Ivanov Yordan Yanchev Kaloyan Bratanov Svetlozar Nikolov | 7:15.85 |
Final
The final was held on 14 December at 20:52.| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 7 | Luiz Altamir Melo Fernando Scheffer Leonardo Coelho Santos Breno Correia | 6:46.81 | |||
| 4 | Martin Malyutin Mikhail Vekovishchev Ivan Girev Aleksandr Krasnykh | 6:46.84 | ER | ||
| 6 | Ji Xinjie Xu Jiayu Sun Yang Wang Shun | 6:47.53 | AS | ||
| 4 | 5 | Blake Pieroni Ryan Held Zach Harting Zane Grothe | 6:49.84 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Alexander Graham Jack Gerrard Cameron McEvoy Thomas Fraser-Holmes | 6:53.05 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Filippo Megli Matteo Ciampi Alessio Colonna Mattia Zuin | 6:55.67 | ||
| 7 | 8 | Miguel Nascimento Alexis Santos Gabriel Lópes Diogo Carvalho | 6:59.28 | NR | |
| 8 | 1 | Gustaf Dahlman Christoffer Carlsen Simon Sjödin Adam Paulsson | 6:59.35 | NR |