2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay

The Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 December 2022.

Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Dates	15 December (heats and finals)
Competitors	62 from 15 nations
Teams	15
Winning time	1:23.44
Medalists
Isaac Cooper Matthew Temple Flynn Southam Kyle Chalmers Grayson Bell   Australia   Alessandro Miressi Leonardo Deplano Thomas Ceccon Manuel Frigo Paolo Conte Bonin   Italy   Kenzo Simons Nyls Korstanje Stan Pijnenburg Thom de Boer   Netherlands

Records

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

World record	United States (USA)	1:21.80	Hangzhou, China	14 December 2018
Competition record	United States (USA)	1:21.80	Hangzhou, China	14 December 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 12:59.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Netherlands	Kenzo Simons (21.28) Nyls Korstanje (20.79) Stan Pijnenburg (21.07) Thom de Boer (20.56)	1:23.70	Q
2	2	5	United States	David Curtiss (21.34) Drew Kibler (20.95) Hunter Armstrong (20.94) Shaine Casas (20.84)	1:24.07	Q
3	1	4	Italy	Alessandro Miressi (21.26) Leonardo Deplano (20.79) Manuel Frigo (21.07) Paolo Conte Bonin (21.01)	1:24.13	Q
4	1	2	Japan	Kosuke Matsui (21.14) Masahiro Kawane (20.89) Takeshi Kawamoto (21.06) Katsumi Nakamura (21.08)	1:24.17	Q, AS
5	1	1	Australia	Isaac Cooper (21.24) Grayson Bell (21.39) Flynn Southam (21.08) Matthew Temple (20.71)	1:24.42	Q
6	2	6	Brazil	Gabriel Santos (21.79) Pedro Spajari (21.31) Nicholas Santos (21.67) Lucas Peixoto (21.33)	1:26.10	Q
7	2	8	Spain	Carles Coll (21.78) Sergio de Celis (21.52) Mario Mollà (21.72) Luis Domínguez (21.27)	1:26.29	Q
8	2	2	Ukraine	Andrii Govorov (21.70) Illia Linnyk (20.97) Vladyslav Bukhov (20.94) Oleksandr Zheltiakov (22.92)	1:26.53	Q
9	2	1	Bulgaria	Josif Miladinov (22.15) Deniel Nankov (21.38) Kaloyan Bratanov (21.21) Antani Ivanov (21.84)	1:26.58	NR
10	2	7	New Zealand	Cameron Gray (21.71) Carter Swift (21.47) Zac Dell (21.57) George Williams (21.84)	1:26.59	NR
11	1	3	Hong Kong	Cheuk Ming Ho (22.93) Ian Ho (20.95) Ng Cheuk Yin (21.36) Hayden Kwan (22.35)	1:27.59	NR
12	1	8	South Africa	Clayton Jimmie (21.84) Simon Haddon (22.25) Kian Keylock (23.43) Pieter Coetze (21.75)	1:29.27
13	1	6	Chinese Taipei	Wu Chun-feng (22.22) Cai Bing-rong (23.15) Wang Hsing-hao (22.83) Chuang Mu-lun (21.89)	1:30.09
14	1	7	Paraguay	Ben Hockin (22.36) Renato Prono (23.03) Matheo Mateos (23.24) Charles Hockin (22.54)	1:31.17
	2	3	Poland	Karol Ostrowski (21.39) Jakub Majerski Ksawery Masiuk Kacper Stokowski	Disqualified
	1	5	China		Did not start

Final

The final was held at 21:54.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	2	Australia	Isaac Cooper (21.25) Matthew Temple (20.75) Flynn Southam (21.10) Kyle Chalmers (20.34)	1:23.44	OC
	3	Italy	Alessandro Miressi (21.22) Leonardo Deplano (20.59) Thomas Ceccon (20.67) Manuel Frigo (21.00)	1:23.48
	4	Netherlands	Kenzo Simons (21.24) Nyls Korstanje (20.84) Stan Pijnenburg (20.95) Thom de Boer (20.72)	1:23.75
4	6	Japan	Kosuke Matsui (21.26) Masahiro Kawane (20.79) Takeshi Kawamoto (20.79) Katsumi Nakamura (20.96)	1:23.80	AS
5	5	United States	David Curtiss (21.16) Shaine Casas (20.83) Hunter Armstrong (20.94) Drew Kibler (21.10)	1:24.03
6	1	Spain	Carles Coll (21.59) Luis Domínguez (21.08) Sergio de Celis (21.04) Mario Mollà (21.12)	1:24.83	NR
7	8	Ukraine	Andrii Govorov (21.78) Illia Linnyk (21.12) Vladyslav Bukhov (20.47) Oleksandr Zheltiakov (22.74)	1:26.11
8	7	Brazil	Pedro Spajari (21.77) Gabriel Santos (21.81) Nicholas Santos (21.63) Lucas Peixoto (21.13)	1:26.34