Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 World Championships took place on July 31, 2009 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. 30 countries entered the event, of which 27 swam.
Records
The existing records when the event started were:| Record | Swimmer | Time | Location |
| World record | Michael Phelps Ryan Lochte Ricky Berens Peter Vanderkaay | 6:58.56 |  Beijing 2008 |
| Championship record | Michael Phelps Ryan Lochte Klete Keller Peter Vanderkaay | 7:03.24 |  Melbourne 2007 |
Results
Heats
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Ricky Berens Daniel Madwed Davis Tarwater Peter Vanderkaay | 7:03.30 | ||
| 2 | 3 | 3 | Shogo Hihara Yoshihiro Okumura Shunsuke Kuzuhara Takeshi Matsuda | 7:03.30 | AS | |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Nic Ffrost Robert Hurley Kirk Palmer Tommaso D'Orsogna | 7:05.56 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 6 | Paul Biedermann Felix Wolf Yannick Lebherz Clemens Rapp | 7:05.62 | ER | |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | Robert Renwick NR Andrew Hunter David Davies David Carry | 7:06.11 | ||
| 6 | 2 | 4 | Yevgeny Lagunov Mikhail Polischuk Sergei Perunin Alexander Sukhorukov | 7:06.44 | ||
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Jean Basson Darian Townsend Jan Albert Venter Sebastien Rousseau | 7:08.01 | AF | |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Cesare Sciocchetti Massimiliano Rosolino Gianluca Maglia Damiano Lestingi | 7:08.07 | ||
| 9 | 2 | 6 | László Cseh NR Péter Bernek Zoltán Povázsay Gergő Kis | 7:08.24 | NR | |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Thiago Pereira SA Rodrigo Castro Lucas Salatta Nicolas Oliveira | 7:09.71 | SA | |
| 11 | 2 | 5 | Colin Russell Stefan Hirniak Blake Worsley Joel Greenshields | 7:09.91 | ||
| 12 | 1 | 6 | Paweł Korzeniowski Konrad Czerniak Lukasz Wojt Pawel Rupak | 7:12.10 | ||
| 13 | 2 | 2 | Cesar Faria Jorge Maia Diogo Carvalho Fabio Pereira | 7:16.48 | NR | |
| 14 | 2 | 0 | Glenn Surgeloose Pholien Systermans Stef Verachten Yoris Grandjean | 7:17.43 | NR | |
| 15 | 1 | 3 | Sun Yang Xin Tong Shi Tengfei Chen Zuo | 7:20.50 | ||
| 16 | 1 | 2 | Daniele Tirabassi Roberto Gomez Alejandro Gómez Crox Acuna | 7:20.56 | NR | |
| 17 | 1 | 9 | David Karasek Dominik Meichtry Duncan Furrer Simon Rabold | 7:22.63 | NR | |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Artur Dilman Oleg Rabota Stanislav Kuzmin Dmitriy Gordiyenko | 7:33.08 | ||
| 19 | 1 | 7 | Petr Romashkin Danil Bugakov Sobitjon Amilov Daniil Tulupov | 7:34.71 | ||
| 20 | 2 | 1 | Hsu Chi-Chieh Chien Jui-Ting Pan Kai-Wen Lin Kuan-Ting | 7:36.83 | ||
| 21 | 2 | 7 | Danny Yeo Lim Wen Hao Joshua Tan Xue Wei Nicholas Lim Clement | 7:38.54 | ||
| 22 | 1 | 1 | Mandar Divase Virdhawal Khade Rehan Poncha Ashwin Menon | 8:07.84 | ||
| 23 | 2 | 8 | Mohammed Al Ghaferi Ali Al Kaabi Mubarak Al Besher Obaid Al Jasmi | 8:07.89 | NR | |
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Antonio Tong Lao Kuan Fong Wong Wing Cheung Victor Ngou Pok Man | 8:08.63 | ||
| 25 | 2 | 9 | Neil Agius dEdward Caruana Dingli Mark Sammut Andrea Agius | 8:11.66 | ||
| 26 | 3 | 0 | Endi Babi Mario Sulkja Jon Pepaj Sidni Hoxha | 8:25.33 | ||
| 27 | 1 | 8 | Eli Ebenezer Wong Cooper Graf Shin Kimura Kailan Staal | 8:35.74 | ||
| – | 1 | 0 | DNS | |||
| – | 3 | 1 | DNS | |||
| – | 3 | 9 | DNS |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Note |
| 4 | Michael Phelps Ricky Berens David Walters Ryan Lochte | 6:58.55 | |||
| 7 | Nikita Lobintsev Mikhail Polischuk Danila Izotov Alexander Sukhorukov | 6:59.15 | ER | ||
| 3 | Kenrick Monk Robert Hurley Tommaso D'Orsogna Patrick Murphy | 7:01.65 | OC | ||
| 4 | 5 | Sho Uchida Yoshihiro Okumura Shogo Hihara Takeshi Matsuda | 7:02.26 | AS | |
| 5 | 6 | Paul Biedermann Felix Wolf Yannick Lebherz Clemens Rapp | 7:03.19 | NR | |
| 6 | 8 | Emiliano Brembilla NR Gianluca Maglia Marco Belotti Filippo Magnini | 7:03.48 | NR | |
| 7 | 2 | Robert Renwick NR Robert Bale David Carry Ross Davenport | 7:05.67 | NR | |
| 8 | 1 | Jean Basson Darian Townsend Jan Albert Venter Sebastien Rousseau | 7:08.51 |