Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 2 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:Results
Heats
The heats were held at 11:11.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Matt McLean Michael Klueh Charlie Houchin Ricky Berens | 7:08.05 | Q | |
| 2 | 1 | 6 | Danila Izotov Nikita Lobintsev Artem Lobuzov Alexander Sukhorukov | 7:09.87 | Q | |
| 3 | 2 | 6 | Takeshi Matsuda Sho Sotodate Yuki Kobori Daiya Seto | 7:09.98 | Q | |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Yannick Agnel Lorys Bourelly Grégory Mallet Jérémy Stravius | 7:10.66 | Q | |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | Glenn Surgeloose Emmanuel Vanluchenne Dieter Dekoninck Pieter Timmers | 7:10.69 | Q, NR | |
| 6 | 1 | 5 | Dimitri Colupaev Clemens Rapp Markus Deibler Yannick Lebherz | 7:11.06 | Q | |
| 7 | 1 | 3 | James Guy Robert Renwick Ieuan Lloyd Josh Walsh | 7:13.00 | Q | |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Wang Shun Hao Yun Lü Zhiwu Li Yunqi | 7:13.37 | Q | |
| 9 | 2 | 3 | David McKeon Ned McKendry Alexander Graham Jarrod Killey | 7:13.52 | ||
| 10 | 2 | 2 | Alex di Giorgio Marco Belotti Damiano Lestingi Filippo Magnini | 7:13.60 | ||
| 11 | 2 | 1 | Nicolas Oliveira Fernando Santos João de Lucca Vinícius Waked | 7:15.97 | ||
| 12 | 2 | 7 | Blake Worsley Alec Page Aly Abdel Khalik Hassaan Abdel Khalik | 7:17.17 | ||
| 13 | 2 | 0 | Víctor Martín Marc Sánchez Albert Puig Gerard Rodríguez | 7:17.59 | NR | |
| 14 | 1 | 7 | Jan Świtkowski Dawid Ziełinski Filip Bujoczek Michał Poprawa | 7:19.07 | ||
| 15 | 1 | 1 | Marwan Ismail Mohamed Khaled Ahmed Akram Mohamed Gadallah | 7:31.60 | NR | |
| 16 | 1 | 0 | Doğa Çelik Nezır Karap Furkan Marasli Kemal Arda Gürdal | 7:32.37 | ||
| 17 | 1 | 8 | Jeong Jeong-Soo Jang Sang-Jin Ju Jang-Hun Im Tae-Jeong | 7:32.83 | ||
| 18 | 2 | 8 | Miguel Gutierrez Ramiro Ramírez Ezequiel Trujillo Arturo Pérez Vertti | 7:38.51 |
Final
The final was held at 19:41.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Conor Dwyer Ryan Lochte Charlie Houchin Ricky Berens | 7:01.72 | |||
| 5 | Danila Izotov Nikita Lobintsev Artem Lobuzov Alexander Sukhorukov | 7:03.92 | |||
| 8 | Wang Shun Hao Yun Li Yunqi Sun Yang | 7:04.74 | NR | ||
| 4 | 6 | Yannick Agnel Lorys Bourelly Grégory Mallet Jérémy Stravius | 7:04.91 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Kosuke Hagino Sho Sotodate Yuki Kobori Takeshi Matsuda | 7:04.95 | ||
| 6 | 7 | Clemens Rapp Markus Deibler Dimitri Colupaev Yannick Lebherz | 7:10.07 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Glenn Surgeloose Emmanuel Vanluchenne Dieter Dekoninck Pieter Timmers | 7:11.15 | ||
| 8 | 1 | James Guy Robert Renwick Jak Scott Josh Walsh | 7:12.00 |