Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
The men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest teams advance to the final.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Pavlo Khnykin Vladimir Pyshnenko Veniamin Tayanovich Iurie Başcatov | 3:17.48 | Q | |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Joe Hudepohl Shaun Jordan Joel Thomas Jon Olsen | 3:18.50 | Q | |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Håkan Karlsson Göran Titus Fredrik Letzler Tommy Werner | 3:18.92 | Q, NR | |
| 4 | 2 | 4 | Mark Pinger Andreas Szigat Dirk Richter Bengt Zikarsky | 3:19.61 | Q | |
| 5 | 1 | 3 | José Carlos Souza Gustavo Borges Emanuel Nascimento Cristiano Michelena | 3:20.50 | Q, NR | |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Mike Fibbens Mark Foster Paul Howe Roland Lee | 3:21.41 | Q | |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Stéphan Caron Frédéric Lefèvre Ludovic Dépickère Bruno Gutzeit | 3:22.01 | Q | |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Chris Fydler Andrew Baildon Tom Stachewicz Darren Lange | 3:22.24 | Q | |
| 9 | 2 | 6 | John Steel Nicholas Sanders Trent Bray Mark Weldon | 3:23.09 | NR | |
| 10 | 1 | 5 | Giorgio Lamberti Emanuele Idini Roberto Gleria Massimo Trevisan | 3:23.43 | ||
| 11 | 3 | 2 | Darryl Cronjé Peter Williams Seddon Keyter Craig Jackson | 3:23.53 | AF | |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Jani Sievinen Janne Vermasheinä Janne Blomqvist Vesa Hanski | 3:25.47 | ||
| 13 | 1 | 2 | Manuel Guzmán Jorge Herrera David Monasterio Ricardo Busquets | 3:30.48 | ||
| 14 | 2 | 7 | Arthur Li Kai Yien Wu Tat Cheung Kelvin Li Kar Wai Michael Wright | 3:30.61 | ||
| 15 | 3 | 7 | Ian Steed Raynor Michael Cash Craig Morbey Geribryan Mewett | 3:31.17 | ||
| 16 | 1 | 7 | Adrian Romero Ray Flores Frank Flores Patrick Sagisi | 3:42.31 | ||
| 17 | 3 | 1 | Andrés Sedano Roberto Bonilla Helder Torres Gustavo Bucaro | 3:42.53 | ||
| 18 | 2 | 1 | Ahmad Faraj Obaid Al-Rumaithi Abdullah Sultan Mohamed Bin Abid | 3:51.60 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 5 | Joe Hudepohl Matt Biondi Tom Jager Jon Olsen | 3:16.74 | |||
| 4 | Pavlo Khnykin Gennadiy Prigoda Iurie Başcatov Alexander Popov | 3:17.56 | |||
| 6 | Christian Tröger Dirk Richter Steffen Zesner Mark Pinger | 3:17.90 | |||
| 4 | 1 | Christophe Kalfayan Franck Schott Frédéric Lefèvre Stéphan Caron | 3:19.16 | NR | |
| 5 | 3 | Tommy Werner Håkan Karlsson Fredrik Letzler Anders Holmertz | 3:20.10 | ||
| 6 | 2 | José Carlos Souza Gustavo Borges Emanuel Nascimento Cristiano Michelena | 3:20.99 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Roland Lee Mark Foster Mike Fibbens Paul Howe | 3:21.75 | ||
| 8 | 8 | Chris Fydler Andrew Baildon Tom Stachewicz Darren Lange | 3:22.04 |