Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	23 May 2021
Competitors	90 from 20 nations
Teams	20
Winning time	3:28.59
Medalists
Luke Greenbank Adam Peaty James Guy Duncan Scott Joe Litchfield James Wilby Thomas Dean   Great Britain   Kliment Kolesnikov Kirill Prigoda Mikhail Vekovishchev Andrey Minakov Evgeny Rylov Anton Chupkov Alexander Kudashev Aleksandr Shchegolev   Russia   Thomas Ceccon Nicolò Martinenghi Federico Burdisso Alessandro Miressi Alessandro Pinzuti Piero Codia   Italy

The Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 23 May 2021.

Records

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

	Team	Time	Location	Date
World record	United States	3:27.28	Rome	2 August 2009
European record	Great Britain	3:28.10	Gwangju	28 July 2019
Championship record	Great Britain	3:30.44	Glasgow	9 August 2018

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Nation	Time	Record
23 May	Final	Great Britain	3:28.59	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 10:54.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	8	Great Britain	Joe Litchfield (54.09) James Wilby (58.90) Duncan Scott (51.43) Thomas Dean (48.06)	3:32.48	Q
2	2	7	France	Yohann Ndoye Brouard (52.96) Theo Bussiere (1:00.30) Mehdy Metella (51.26) Maxime Grousset (47.98)	3:32.50	Q
3	1	3	Italy	Thomas Ceccon (53.69) Alessandro Pinzuti (59.60) Piero Codia (52.13) Alessandro Miressi (48.05)	3:33.47	Q
4	1	0	Poland	Kacper Stokowski (54.42) Jan Kozakiewicz (1:00.41) Paweł Korzeniowski (51.54) Jakub Kraska (48.16)	3:34.53	Q
5	1	1	Ireland	Shane Ryan (54.11) Darragh Greene (58.98) Brendan Hyland (52.85) Jack McMillan (48.68)	3:34.62	Q, NR
6	1	9	Russia	Evgeny Rylov (53.44) Anton Chupkov (58.94) Alexander Kudashev (53.49) Aleksandr Shchegolev (48.85)	3:34.72	Q
7	2	0	Belarus	Viktar Staselovich (54.92) Ilya Shymanovich (58.20) Yauhen Tsurkin (52.21) Artsiom Machekin (49.54)	3:34.87	Q
8	1	4	Germany	Björn Kammann (55.38) Lucas Matzerath (59.11) Ramon Klenz (52.25) Josha Salchow (48.26)	3:35.00	Q
9	2	3	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys (55.14) Andrius Šidlauskas (59.23) Deividas Margevičius (52.29) Simonas Bilis (48.82)	3:35.48
10	2	5	Hungary	Benedek Kovács (54.78) Tamás Takács (1:01.18) Hubert Kós (52.22) Nándor Németh (47.87)	3:36.05
11	1	7	Sweden	Gustav Hökfelt (55.29) Erik Persson (59.72) Simon Sjödin (52.28) Isak Eliasson (48.87)	3:36.16
12	1	5	Austria	Bernhard Reitshammer (55.12) Christopher Rothbauer (1:01.67) Simon Bucher (51.80) Heiko Gigler (48.03)	3:36.62	NR
13	2	9	Turkey	Berke Saka (55.73) Berkay-Ömer Öğretir (58.86) Ümitcan Güreş (52.31) Baturalp Ünlü (49.99)	3:36.89
14	2	1	Greece	Apostolos Christou (53.71) Konstantinos Meretsolias (1:00.01) Stefanos Dimitriadis (54.38) Andreas Vazaios (48.96)	3:37.06
15	2	4	Bulgaria	Kaloyan Levterov (55.89) Lyubomir Epitropov (1:00.13) Josif Miladinov (52.29) Antani Ivanov (49.17)	3:37.48	NR
16	1	8	Estonia	Armin Evert Lelle (55.21) Martin Allikvee (1:01.81) Alex Ahtiainen (52.43) Daniel Zaitsev (48.31)	3:37.76	NR
17	2	2	Czech Republic	Jan Čejka (54.31) Matěj Zábojník (1:01.84) Jan Šefl (52.30) Adam Hlobeň (49.82)	3:38.27
18	1	2	Norway	Markus Lie (55.68) André Klippenberg Grindheim (1:00.36) Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas (52.98) Nicholas Lia (49.50)	3:38.52	NR
19	2	6	Slovakia	Alex Kušík (58.43) Tomáš Klobučník (1:02.22) Ádám Halás (53.80) Matej Duša (50.17)	3:44.62	NR
	1	6	Switzerland	Roman Mityukov (54.55) Jérémy Desplanches (1:01.24) Noè Ponti (52.12) Antonio Djakovic	Disqualified

Final

The final was held at 19:14.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	Great Britain	Luke Greenbank (53.64) Adam Peaty (57.38) James Guy (50.65) Duncan Scott (46.92)	3:28.59	CR
	7	Russia	Kliment Kolesnikov (52.13) Kirill Prigoda (59.02) Mikhail Vekovishchev (50.94) Andrey Minakov (47.41)	3:29.50
	3	Italy	Thomas Ceccon (53.59) Nicolò Martinenghi (57.84) Federico Burdisso (51.29) Alessandro Miressi (47.21)	3:29.93	NR
4	6	Poland	Kacper Stokowski (54.18) Jan Kozakiewicz (59.34) Jakub Majerski (51.11) Jakub Kraska (48.19)	3:32.82	NR
5	5	France	Yohann Ndoye Brouard (53.22) Théo Bussière (1:00.60) Mehdy Metella (51.46) Maxime Grousset (47.82)	3:33.10
6	1	Belarus	Viktar Staselovich (54.75) Ilya Shymanovich (57.84) Yauhen Tsurkin (51.93) Artsiom Machekin (49.68)	3:34.20
7	2	Ireland	Shane Ryan (54.23) Darragh Greene (59.20) Brendan Hyland (53.08) Jack McMillan (48.37)	3:34.88
8	8	Germany	Björn Kammann (55.42) Lucas Matzerath (58.95) Ramon Klenz (52.09) Josha Salchow (48.81)	3:35.27