| Final 02.08 | time | L | -time | Heat | | 1. | United States | 3:27.28 | 3 | WR | Final | | Aaron Peirsol 52.19s CR, Eric Shanteau 58.57s, Michael Phelps 49.72s, David Walters 46.80s | | 2. | Germany | 3:28.58 | 4 | 1.30s | Final | | Helge Meeuw 52.27s, Hendrik Feldwehr 58.51s, Benjamin Starke 50.91s, Paul Biedermann 46.89s | | 3. | Australia | 3:28.64 | 5 | 1.36s | Final | | Ashley Delaney 53.10s, Brenton Rickard 57.80s, Andrew Lauterstein 50.58s, Matthew Targett 47.16s | | 4. | Brazil | 3:29.16 | 2 | 1.88s | Final | | Guilherme Guido 53.78s, Henrique Barbosa 58.68s, Gabriel Mangabeira 50.48s, Cesar Cielo Filho 46.22s | | 5. | France | 3:29.73 | 6 | 2.45s | Final | | Jeremy Stravius 53.96s, Hugues Duboscq 58.54s, Clement Lefert 50.97s, Alain Bernard 46.26s | | 6. | Russia | 3:30.60 | 7 | 3.32s | Final | | Arkady Vyatchanin 52.57s, Grigory Falko 1:00.00, Evgeny Korotyshkin 50.57s, Andrey Grechin 47.46s | | 7. | Japan | 3:30.91 | 8 | 3.63s | Final | | Junya Koga 52.90s, Ryo Tateishi 58.90s, Takuro Fujii 50.68s, Rammaru Harada 48.43s | | -. | Great Britain | DQ | 1 | | Final | | Liam Tancock 53.71s, James Gibson 59.46s, Michael Rock SR -0.08s, Simon Burnett |
| Heats 02.08 10:24 | time | L | -time | Heat | | 1. | Germany | 3:29.48 | 7 | CR | Heat 3. | | Helge Meeuw 52.46s, Hendrik Feldwehr 58.22s, Benjamin Starke 51.11s, Paul Biedermann 47.69s | | 2. | Australia | 3:29.844 | | 0.36s | Heat 4. | | Ashley Delaney 53.29s, Christian Sprenger 58.88s, Andrew Lauterstein 50.16s, Matthew Targett 47.51s | | 3. | United States | 3:29.94 | 4 | 0.46s | Heat 5. | | Mattew Grevers 53.20s, Mark Gangloff 58.68s, Tyler Mcgill 50.82s, Nathan Adrian 47.24s | | 4. | France | 3:30.09 | 6 | 0.61s | Heat 3. | | Jeremy Stravius 53.90s, Hugues Duboscq 58.75s, Clement Lefert 50.58s, Alain Bernard 46.86s | | 5. | Brazil | 3:30.25 | 3 | 0.77s | Heat 4. | | Guilherme Guido 53.61s, Henrique Barbosa 58.84s, Gabriel Mangabeira 50.16s, Nicolas Oliveira 47.64s | | 6. | Russia | 3:30.55 | 5 | 1.07s | Heat 5. | | Arkady Vyatchanin 53.27s, Grigory Falko 59.64s, Evgeny Korotyshkin 50.45s, Evgeniy Lagunov 47.19s | | 7. | Great Britain | 3:30.68 | 5 | 1.20s | Heat 3. | | Liam Tancock 53.49s, James Gibson 59.11s, Michael Rock 50.71s, Simon Burnett 47.37s | | 8. | Japan | 3:30.74 | 4 | 1.26s | Heat 3. | | Ryosuke Irie 52.50s, Ryo Tateishi 59.26s, Takuro Fujii 50.52s, Rammaru Harada 48.46s | | 9. | Canada | 3:31.02 | 2 | 1.54s | Heat 5. | | Pascal Wollach 53.90s, Mathieu Bois 58.86s, Joe Bartoch 51.39s, Brent Hayden 46.87s | | 10. | South Africa | 3:31.53 | 3 | 2.05s | Heat 5. | | George Du Rand 53.90s, Cameron Van Der Burgh 58.32s, Lyndon Ferns 52.06s, Graeme Moore 47.25s | | 11. | New Zealand | 3:31.58 | 5 | 2.10s | Heat 4. | | Daniel Bell 53.85s, Glenn Snyders 59.75s, Corney Swanepoel 50.45s, Cameron Gibson 47.53s | | 12. | Spain | 3:32.11 | 3 | 2.63s | Heat 3. | | Aschwin Wildeboer 52.70s, Melquiades Alvarez 59.15s, Rafael Munoz 50.52s, Jose Antonio Alonso 49.74s | | 13. | Italy | 3:33.42 | 6 | 3.94s | Heat 5. | | Enrico Catalano 54.76s, Luca Pizzini 1:00.12s, Mattia Nalesso 51.80s, Christian Galenda 46.74s | | 14. | Greece | 3:35.33 | 6 | 5.85s | Heat 4. | | Aristeidis Grigoriadis 54.08s, Romanos Iasonas Alyfantis 1:00.87, Stefanos Dimitriadis 51.87s, Ioannis Kalargaris 48.51s | | 15. | Lithuania | 3:35.40 | 0 | 5.92s | Heat 4. | | Vytautas Janusaitis 54.77s, Giedrius Titenis 59.26s, Rimvydas Salcius 52.80s, Paulius Viktoravicius 48.57s | | 16. | China | 3:35.86 | 7 | 6.38s | Heat 4. | | Jianbin He 55.05s, Guoying Zhang 1:01.18s, Jiawei Zhou 51.03s, Zuo Chen 48.60s | | 17. | Israel | 3:36.23 | 8 | 6.75s | Heat 5. | | Guy Markus Barnea 54.29s, Tom Beeri 1:01.75, Alon Mandel 51.60s, Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 48.59s | | 18. | Slovenia | 3:36.79 | 8 | 7.31s | Heat 1. | | Robi Zbogar 56.41s, Damir Dugonjic 1:00.17, Peter Mankoc 50.86s, Jernej Godec 49.35s | | 19. | Ukraine | 3:36.99 | 7 | 7.51s | Heat 1. | | Andriy Kovbasa 56.21s, Igor Borysik 59.52s, Denys Dubrov 51.87s, Andrii Govorov 49.39s | | 20. | Czech Republic | 3:37.10 | 4 | 7.62s | Heat 1. | | Tomas Fucik 55.88s, Petr Bartunek 1:01.28, Michal Rubacek 51.26s, Martin Verner 48.68s | | 21. | Romania | 3:37.57 | 2 | 8.09s | Heat 4. | | Razvan Ionut Florea 54.45s, Dragos Agache 1:01.51, Alexandru Felix Maestru 53.18s, Norbert Trandafir 48.43s | | 21. | Belarus | 3:37.57 | 7 | 8.09s | Heat 5. | | Pavel Sankovich 54.57s, Viktor Vabishchevich 1:01.32, Evgeny Lazuka 51.74s, Andrei Radzionau 49.94s | | 23. | Kazakhstan | 3:38.65 | 1 | 9.17s | Heat 4. | | Stanislav Ossinskiy 56.73s, Vladislav Polyakov 59.59s, Rustam Khudiyev 53.51s, Stanislav Kuzmin 48.82s | | 24. | Ireland | 3:39.87 | 4 | 10.39s | Heat 2. | | Karl Burdis 54.44s, Barry Murphy 1:00.92, Conor Leaney 54.93s, Ryan Harrison 49.58s | | 25. | Switzerland | 3:41.10 | 6 | 11.62s | Heat 1. | | Flori Lang 55.41s, Benjamin Le Maguet 1:03.12, Damien Courtois 53.92s, Gregory Widmer 48.65s | | 26. | Estonia | 3:43.12 | 0 | 13.64s | Heat 5. | | Andres Olvik 56.80s, Martti Aljand 1:00.89, Sten Indrikson 54.81s, Vladimir Sidorkin 50.62s | | 27. | Uzbekistan | 3:45.23 | 9 | 15.75s | Heat 5. | | Danil Bugakov 56.93s, Ivan Demyanenko 1:02.73, Sergey Pankov 55.38s, Daniil Tulupov 50.19s | | 28. | Colombia | 3:46.45 | 1 | 16.97s | Heat 3. | | Omar A. Pinzon Garcia 55.29s, Jorge Mario Murillo Valdes 1:03.82, Carlos Viveros Madariaga 55.89s, Julio Galofre Montes 51.45s | | 29. | Singapore | 3:48.74 | 8 | 19.26s | Heat 4. | | Kai Wee Rainer Ng 57.33s, Jinwen Mark Tan 1:04.84, Xue Wei Nicholas Tan 55.07s, Clement Lim 51.50s | | 30. | India | 3:48.85 | 6 | 19.37s | Heat 2. | | Ashwin Menon 1:00.83, Sandeep Sejwal 1:02.28, Rehan Poncha 55.52s, Virdhawal Khade 50.22s | | 31. | Philippines | 3:49.65 | 8 | 20.17s | Heat 3. | | Charles William Walker 58.92s, Miguel Molina 1:03.87, James Walsh 55.63s, Daniel Coakley 51.23s | | 32. | Peru | 3:55.35 | 9 | 25.87s | Heat 4. | | Sebastian Jahnsen Madico 1:00.98, Pedro Luna Llamosas 1:06.88, Emmanuel Crescimbeni 55.29s, Sebastian Arispe Silva 52.20s | | 33. | Macau | 3:57.44 | 9 | 27.96s | Heat 3. | | Antonio Tong 1:01.00, Chan Wai Ma 1:07.84, Wing Cheung Victor Wong 55.56s, Kuan Fong Lao 53.04s | | 34. | Senegal | 3:58.70 | 2 | 29.22s | Heat 2. | | Matar Samb 1:04.43, Malick Fall 1:00.48, Papa Madiop Ndong 1:01.19, Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane 52.60s | | 35. | UA Emirates | 4:00.37 | 3 | 30.89s | Heat 2. | | Mohammed Al Ghaferi 1:02.12, Mubarak Al Besher 1:07.18, Obaid Aljesmi 56.91s, Saeed Al Jesmi 54.16s | | 36. | Armenia | 4:04.895 | | 35.41s | Heat 2. | | Khachik Plavchyan 1:01.08, Andranik Harutyunyan 1:10.46, Mikayel Koloyan 57.82s, Harutyun Harutyunyan 55.53s | | 37. | Papua New Guinea | 4:05.62 | 7 | 36.14s | Heat 2. | | Ryan John Pini 55.80s, Ian Bond Wolongkatop Nakmai 1:10.99, Peter Popahun Pokawin 1:03.53, Daniel Kevin Pryke 55.30s | | 38. | Malta | 4:08.49 | 5 | 39.01s | Heat 1. | | Mark Sammut 1:04.59, Andrea Agius 1:08.51, Neil Agius 59.42s, Edward Caruana Dingli 55.97s | | 39. | Tahiti | 4:08.78 | 2 | 39.30s | Heat 1. | | Vincent Perry 1:06.05, Rainui Teriipaia 1:06.79, Heimanu Sichan 1:00.93, Anthony Clark 55.01s | | 40. | Albania | 4:16.13 | 8 | 46.65s | Heat 2. | | Sidni Hoxha 1:05.41, Jurgen Fici 1:16.19, Endi Babi 58.20s, Jon Pepaj 56.33s | | 41. | Mozambique | 4:21.81 | 3 | 52.33s | Heat 1. | | Leonel Matonse 1:06.20, Ivo Chilaule 1:13.45, Gerusio Matonse 1:05.38, Patricio Vera 56.78s | | 42. | Northern Mariana Islands | 4:29.77 | 0 | 1:00.29 | Heat 2. | | Kailan Staal 1:09.11, Eli Ebenezer Wong 1:08.28, Cooper Graf 1:10.20, Shin Kimura 1:02.18 | | -. | Mauritius | DQ | 1 | | Heat 2. | | Ronny Vencatachellum, Cheung Ho Yan K. , Jean Marie E. Froget, J.-P. Hughes Gregoire | | -. | Netherlands | DQ | 2 | | Heat 3. | | Nicolaas Driebergen, Lennart Stekelenburg, Joeri Verlinden, Sebastiaan Verschuren | | -. | Croatia | DNS | 9 | | Heat 2. | | -. | Kuwait | DNS | 0 | | Heat 3. | | -. | Uruguay | DNS | 1 | | Heat 5. |
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