Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	16 May
Competitors	65 from 15 nations
Teams	15
Winning time	3:13.48
Medalists
William Meynard Florent Manaudou Fabien Gilot Clément Mignon    France   Luca Dotto Luca Leonardi Jonathan Boffa Filippo Magnini    Italy   Glenn Surgeloose Jasper Aerents Dieter Dekoninck Pieter Timmers    Belgium

The Men's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 May 2016.^[1][2]

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	United States	3:08.24	Beijing	11 August 2008
European record	France	3:08.32	Beijing	11 August 2008
Championship record	France	3:11.64	Berlin	18 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 12:07.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	1	France	Clement Mignon (48.88) William Meynard (49.59) Fabien Gilot (48.37) Lorys Bourelly (49.38)	3:16.22	Q
2	1	3	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.40) Giuseppe Guttuso (49.78) Jonathan Boffa (49.07) Luca Leonardi (49.17)	3:16.42	Q
3	2	2	Belgium	Louis Croenen (50.07) Jasper Aerents (48.70) Glenn Surgeloose (48.67) Dieter Dekoninck (49.09)	3:16.53	Q
4	2	8	Romania	Marius Radu (49.28) Daniel Macovei (49.43) Alin Coste (49.14) Norbert Trandafir (48.69)	3:16.54	Q
5	2	6	Greece	Odyssefs Meladinis (49.61) Apostolos Christou (49.26) Christos Katrantzis (49.41) Kristian Golomeev (48.54)	3:16.82	Q
6	2	5	Hungary	Peter Holoda (49.58) Krisztián Takács (49.76) Richárd Bohus (48.94) Dominik Kozma (48.87)	3:17.15	Q
7	2	1	Spain	Aitor Martinez Rodriguez (49.63) Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate Ozeki (49.09) Bruno Ortiz-Cañavate Ozeki (50.08) Oskitz Aguilar Urtxegi (49.51)	3:18.31	Q
8	1	2	Great Britain	Robert Renwick (49.78) Benjamin Proud (50.52) Ieuan Lloyd (49.38) Duncan W Scott (48.78)	3:18.46	Q
9	1	7	Turkey	Huseyin Emre Sakci (50.28) Doga Celik (49.40) Iskender Baslakov (50.06) Kemal Arda Gürdal (48.92)	3:18.66
10	1	4	Sweden	Christoffer Carlsen (49.88) Isak Eliasson (49.06) Robin Andreasson (49.57) Daniel Forndal (50.19)	3:18.70
11	1	6	Lithuania	Mindaugas Sadauskas (49.64) Simonas Bilis (48.51) Tadas Duskinas (50.35) Povilas Strazdas (50.28)	3:18.78
12	2	3	Poland	Paweł Korzeniowski (49.47) Kacper Majchrzak (48.92) Filip Wypych (50.44) Oskar Krupecki (50.38)	3:19.21
13	1	5	Israel	Alexi Konovalov (50.16) Or Sabatier (49.50) Ziv Kalontarov (50.46) Tom Kremer (49.35)	3:19.47
14	2	7	Switzerland	Alexandre Haldemann (49.87) Erik van Dooren (50.53) Aleksi Schmid (49.85) Nils Liess (50.15)	3:20.40
15	2	4	Estonia	Ralf Tribuntsov (51.39) Andri Aedma (50.62) Kregor Zirk (49.61) Pjotr Degtjarjov (48.90)	3:20.52

Final

The final was held at 19:26.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
01 !	4	France	William Meynard (49.57) Florent Manaudou (47.64) Fabien Gilot (48.26) Clement Mignon (48.01)	3:13.48
02 !	5	Italy	Luca Dotto (48.03) Luca Leonardi (48.47) Jonathan Boffa (49.21) Filippo Magnini (48.58)	3:14.29
03 !	3	Belgium	Glenn Surgeloose (48.75) Jasper Aerents (49.31) Dieter Dekoninck (48.87) Pieter Timmers (47.37)	3:14.30
4	2	Greece	Odyssefs Meladinis (49.60) Christos Katrantzis (48.65) Apostolos Christou (48.13) Kristian Golomeev (48.04)	3:14.42
5	7	Hungary	Peter Holoda (49.91) Krisztián Takács (49.41) Richárd Bohus (48.64) Dominik Kozma (48.59)	3:16.55
6	6	Romania	Marius Radu (49.08) Robert Glință (49.24) Alin Coste (49.91) Norbert Trandafir (48.85)	3:17.08
7	8	Great Britain	Robert Renwick (49.79) Duncan W Scott (48.31) Ieuan Lloyd (49.70) Benjamin Proud (49.33)	3:17.13
8	1	Spain	Markel Alberdi (49.76) Aitor Martinez Rodriguez (49.63) Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate Ozeki (48.62) Oskitz Aguilar Urtxegi (49.20)	3:17.21

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