Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
| Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
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| Venue | Olympic Aquatic Centre | |||||||||
| Dates | August 17, 2004 (heats & final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 75 from 16 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 7:07.33 AM | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics  |
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| Freestyle | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | women | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| Backstroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Breaststroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Butterfly | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Individual medley | ||||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| Freestyle relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
| 4×200 m | men | women | ||
| Medley relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay took place on 17 August at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece.[1]
Team USA had a satisfactory triumph over the Australians with a gold medal for the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Klete Keller, along with Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, and Peter Vanderkaay of the Team USA, edged out the Australians, led by Ian Thorpe, to a first-place finish by 0.13 of a second, in an American record time of 7:07.33. As the defending Olympic champions from Sydney, the Australian team of Thorpe, Michael Klim, Nicholas Sprenger, and Grant Hackett earned a silver medal in 7:07.46. The Italians got the bronze in 7:11.83, after a powerful second leg from former Olympic silver medalist Massimiliano Rosolino.[2][3]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Australia (AUS)Grant Hackett (1:46.11) Michael Klim (1:46.49) Bill Kirby (1:47.92) Ian Thorpe (1:44.14) |
7:04.66 | Fukuoka, Japan | 27 July 2001 |
| Olympic record |  Australia (AUS)Ian Thorpe (1:46.03) Michael Klim (1:46.40) Todd Pearson (1:47.36) Bill Kirby (1:47.26) |
7:07.05 | Sydney, Australia | 19 September 2000 |
No new records were set during this competition.
Results
Heats
Final
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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4 |  United States |
Michael Phelps (1:46.49) Ryan Lochte (1:47.52) Peter Vanderkaay (1:47.79) Klete Keller (1:45.53) |
7:07.33 | AM | |
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5 | Australia |
Grant Hackett (1:47.50) Michael Klim (1:47.62) Nicholas Sprenger (1:48.16) Ian Thorpe (1:44.18) |
7:07.46 | 0.13 | |
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7 | 23x15px Italy | Emiliano Brembilla (1:48.16) Massimiliano Rosolino (1:46.24) Simone Cercato (1:49.85) Filippo Magnini (1:47.58) |
7:11.83 | 4.50 | |
| 4 | 6 |  Great Britain |
Simon Burnett (1:47.90) Gavin Meadows (1:48.46) David O'Brien (1:49.05) Ross Davenport (1:47.19) |
7:12.60 | 5.27 | |
| 5 | 2 |  Canada |
Brent Hayden (1:49.08) Brian Johns (1:49.15) Andrew Hurd (1:48.09) Rick Say (1:47.01) |
7:13.33 | 6.00 | |
| 6 | 3 |  Germany |
Jens Schreiber (1:49.08) Heiko Hell (1:49.15) Lars Conrad (1:48.23) Christian Keller (1:50.05) |
7:16.51 | 9.18 | |
| 7 | 8 |  France |
Amaury Leveaux (1:48.57) Fabien Horth (1:48.67) Nicolas Kintz (1:50.01) Nicolas Rostoucher (1:50.18) |
7:17.43 | 10.10 | |
| 8 | 1 |  Greece |
Apostolos Antonopoulos (1:50.34) Dimitrios Manganas (1:51.33) Andreas Zisimos (1:50.26) Nikolaos Xylouris (1:51.09) |
7:23.02 | 15.67 |
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