2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay explained

Event:	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
Competition:	2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center
Dates:	10 August
Competitors:	20
Nations:	5
Win Value:	7:04.36
Gold:	Andrew Seliskar Blake Pieroni Zachary Apple Townley Haas
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Clyde Lewis Kyle Chalmers Alexander Graham Jack Cartwright
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Naito Ehara Reo Sakata Yuki Kobori Katsuhiro Matsumoto
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2022

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center.^[1] The defending champion was the United States.^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

World record	Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46)	6:58.55	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record	Michael Phelps (1:45.62) Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.46) Ricky Berens (1:46.49) Ryan Lochte (1:45.27)	7:03.84	Irvine, United States	19 August 2010

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

CR

Championships record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The final was held on 10 August from 18:00.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	5		Andrew Seliskar (1:46.75) Blake Pieroni (1:47.63) Zachary Apple (1:46.20) Townley Haas (1:43.78)	7:04.36
	3		Clyde Lewis (1:46.54) Kyle Chalmers (1:46.73) Alexander Graham (1:45.91) Jack Cartwright (1:45.52)	7:04.70
	4		Naito Ehara (1:47.28) Reo Sakata (1:47.07) Yuki Kobori (1:48.41) Katsuhiro Matsumoto (1:45.31)	7:08.07
4	6		Luiz Altamir Melo (1:47.65) Fernando Scheffer (1:44.87) Leonardo de Deus (1:49.34) Guilherme Costa (1:49.79)	7:11.65
5	2		Alex Pratt (1:48.32) Ruslan Gaziev (1:49.50) Markus Thormeyer (1:50.56) Javier Acevedo (1:49.87)	7:18.25

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule Pan Pacs 2018 . Pan Pacs 2018 . 15 August 2018.
2. Web site: Results of the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay finals at 2014 Pan Pacific . Australia Swimming . 22 August 2014 . 15 August 2018 . 26 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113356/http://liveresults.swimming.org.au/sal/2014PP/140821F016.htm . dead .
3. Web site: Pan Pacific Championships 2018 – Men 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final . Seiko.co.jp . 10 August 2018 . 15 August 2018.