| Final | 19:49 | time |   | gap | L |  | 1. |   Australia | 3:19.38 | WRR |   | 3 | 1. |  |  |  Jack Cartwright 48.12s, Kyle Chalmers 46.98s, Madison Wilson 52.25s, Mollie O'Callaghan 52.03s |  | 2. |   Canada | 3:20.61 | NR |   | 5 | 2. |  |  |  Joshua Liendo 48.02s, Javier Acevedo 47.96s, Kayla Sanchez 52.52s, Penny Oleksiak 52.11s |  | 3. |   United States | 3:21.09 |   |   | 4 | 3. |  |  |  Ryan Held 47.93s, Brooks Curry 47.72s, Torri Huske 52.70s, Claire Curzan 52.84s |  | 4. |   Great Britain | 3:22.44 |   |   | 7 | 4. |  |  |  Tom Dean 48.25s, Lewis Burras 47.86s, Anna Hopkin 53.27s, Freya Anderson 53.06s |  | 5. |   Netherlands | 3:24.24 |   |   | 6 | 5. |  |  |  Stan Pijnenburg 48.80s, Jesse Puts 48.29s, Tessa Giele 54.58s, Marrit Steenbergen 52.57s |  | 6. |   Brazil | 3:24.78 | Sa |   | 1 | 6. |  |  |  Gabriel Santos 48.73s, Vinicius Assunção 48.03s, Giovanna Diamante 53.98s, Stephanie Balduccini 54.04s |  | 7. |   Italy | 3:25.83 |   |   | 2 | 7. |  |  |  Lorenzo Zazzeri 48.69s, Alessandro Miressi 47.50s, Silvia Di Pietro 54.19s, Chiara Tarantino 55.45s |  | 8. |   China | 3:26.92 |   |   | 8 | 8. |  |  |  Hong Jinquan 48.88s, Wang Changhao 48.86s, Lao Lihui 54.60s, Ai Yanhan 54.58s |   
|  122 Competitors from 27 Nations. |  | World Record: United States 3:19.40 Gwangju, South Korea 27 July 2019 |  | World Championship Record: United States 3:19.40 Gwangju, South Korea 27 July 2019 |   
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 Heats - Friday, 24th July 09:53 |  | Best 8 times advanced to Final.  |   
| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | Rk. |  | 1. |   United States | 3:43.16 | Q |   | 3 | 1. |  |  |  Ryan Murphy 52.40s, Lilly King 1:06.79, Michael Andrew 50.69s, Erika Brown 53.28s |  | 2. |   Great Britain | 3:43.64 | Q |   | 4 | 3. |  |  |  Medi Harris 1:00.09, James Wilby 58.94s, Jacob Peters 51.49s, Anna Hopkin 53.12s |  | 3. |   Australia | 3:44.58 | Q |   | 5 | 4. |  |  |  Isaac Cooper 53.77s, Matthew Wilson 1:00.27, Brianna Throssell 57.51s, Meg Harris 53.03s |  | 4. |   Germany | 3:46.54 | Q |   | 2 | 8. |  |  |  Ole Braunschweig 53.90s, Anna Elendt 1:05.59, Angelina Köhler 58.06s, Jan Eric Friese 48.99s |  | 5. |   Brazil | 3:48.07 |   |   | 7 | 9. |  |  |  Guilherme Basseto 54.69s, João Gomes Júnior 1:00.15, Giovanna Diamante 58.31s, Stephanie Balduccini 54.92s |  | 6. |   Israel | 3:48.39 |   |   | 6 | 10. |  |  |  Anastasia Gorbenko 1:00.08, Kristian Pitshugin 1:01.55, Tomer Frankel 51.71s, Daria Golovaty 55.05s |  | 7. |   Latvia | 3:57.77 | Nr |   | 0 | 15. |  |  |  Feldbergs 55.65s, Daniils Bobrovs 1:02.69, Ieva Maļuka 1:02.29, Gabriela Ņikitina 57.14s Ģirts |  | 8. |   Slovakia | 3:58.67 |   |   | 8 | 17. |  |  |  Tamara Potocká 1:04.91, Nikoleta Trníková 1:10.14, Ádám Halás 54.02s, Matej Duša 49.60s |  | 7. |   Angola | 4:20.77 |   |   | 9 | 25. |  |  |  Salvador Gordo 1:01.39, Maria Freitas 1:19.67, Lia Lima 1:06.72, Henrique Mascarenhas 52.99s |  | -. |   Estonia | DSQ |   |   | 1 | -. |  |  |  Armin Evert Lelle 55.84s, Eneli Jefimova, Alex Ahtiainen, Aleksa Gold |   
| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | Rk. |  | 1. |   Netherlands | 3:43.48 | Q |   | 3 | 2. |  |  |  Kira Toussaint 1:00.45, Arno Kamminga 58.70s, Nyls Korstanje 51.12s, Marrit Steenbergen 53.21s |  | 2. |   China | 3:44.92 | Q |   | 4 | 5. |  |  |  Xu Jiayu 53.33s, Yu Jingyao 1:06.73, Wang Changhao 51.23s, Cheng Yujie 53.63s |  | 3. |   Japan | 3:45.08 | Q |   | 6 | 6. |  |  |  Ryosuke Irie 53.05s, Reona Aoki 1:06.49, Naoki Mizunuma 50.92s, Rika Omoto 54.62s |  | 4. |   Italy | 3:46.44 | Q |   | 5 | 7. |  |  |  Michele Lamberti 54.40s, Arianna Castiglioni 1:05.82, Elena Di Liddo 57.83s, Manuel Frigo 48.39s |  | 5. |   Canada | 3:48.93 |   |   | 7 | 11. |  |  |  Javier Acevedo 54.80s, Rachel Nicol 1:07.28, Katerine Savard 58.57s, Yuri Kisil 48.28s |  | 6. |   Greece | 3:49.13 |   |   | 2 | 12. |  |  |  Evangelos Makrygiannis 54.38s, Konstantinos Meretsolias 1:00.35, Anna Ntountounaki 58.88s, Theodora Drakou 55.52s |  | 7. |   South Africa | 4:00.65 |   |   | 8 | 18. |  |  |  Olivia Nel 1:03.35, Brenden Crawford 1:01.33, Clayton Jimmie 56.05s, Stephanie Houtman 59.92s |  | 8. |   Bahamas | 4:15.19 |   |   | 0 | 22. |  |  |  Lamar Taylor 58.58s, Izaak Bastian 1:04.72, Zaylie Thompson 1:10.74, Lillian Higgs 1:01.15 |  | -. |   Lithuania | DSQ |   |   | 1 | -. |  |  |  Erikas Grigaitis 55.27s, Kotryna Teterevkova 1:08.16, Deividas Margevičius, Rūta Meilutytė |  | -. |   Peru | DNS |   |   | 9 | -. |  |  |    |   
| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | Rk. |  | 1. |   Singapore | 3:54.43 |   |   | 0 | 14. |  |  |  Quah Zheng Wen 55.26s, Nicholas Mahabir 1:00.30, Letitia Sim 1:01.88, Amanda Lim 56.99s |  | 2. |   Chinese Taipei | 3:58.13 | Nr |   | 2 | 16. |  |  |  Chuang Mu-lun 55.51s, Wang Hsing-hao 1:03.33, Hsu An 1:02.65, Huang Mei-chien 56.64s |  | 3. |   Thailand | 4:09.28 |   |   | 1 | 20. |  |  |  Jinjutha Pholjamjumrus 1:08.22, Dulyawat Kaewsriyong 1:05.69, Navaphat Wongcharoen 54.08s, Yarinda Sunthornrangsri 1:01.29 |  | 4. |   Morocco | 4:10.91 |   |   | 5 | 21. |  |  |  Lina Khiyara 1:09.19, Imane El Baroudi 1:14.80, Samy Boutouil 54.53s, Souhail Hamouchane 52.39s |  | 5. |   Mongolia | 4:15.32 |   |   | 7 | 23. |  |  |  Enkh-Amgalangiin Ariuntamir 1:08.56, Zandanbal Gunsennorov 1:08.74, Batbayaryn Enkhkhüslen 1:04.98, Batbayaryn Enkhtamir 53.04s |  | 6. |   Seychelles | 4:19.21 |   |   | 4 | 24. |  |  |  Therese Soukup 1:11.96, Simon Bachmann 1:07.51, Mathieu Bachmann 57.36s, Khema Elizabeth 1:02.38 |  | 7. |   Guam | 4:47.10 |   |   | 9 | 27. |  |  |  Benjamin Ko 1:03.63, Keana Santos 1:35.53, Mia Lee 1:12.81, Israel Poppe 55.13s |  | . |   South Korea | DSQ |   |   | 8 | -. |  |  |  Lee Ju-ho 54.40s, Choi Dong-yeol 1:00.13, Kim Seo-yeong, Jeong So-eun |  | -. |   Uganda | DNS |   |   | 3 | -. |  |  |    |  | -. |   Tanzania | DNS |   |   | 6 | -. |  |  |    |   
| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | Rk. |  | 1. |   Hong Kong | 3:54.28 |   |   | 5 | 13. |  |  |  Stephanie Au 1:01.38, Adam Chillingworth 1:02.16, Nicholas Lim 54.27s, Camille Cheng 56.47s |  | 2. |   Vietnam | 4:07.53 |   |   | 4 | 19. |  |  |  Nguyễn Quang Thuấn 59.87s, Phạm Thanh Bảo 1:02.69, Lê Thị Mỹ Thảo 1:03.76, Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên 1:01.21  |  | 3. |   Northern Mariana | 4:37.91 |   |   | 3 | 26. |  |  |  Juhn Tenorio 1:01.77, Maria Batallones 1:24.00, Taiyo Akimaru 1:02.22, Jinie Thompson 1:09.92 |  | 4. |   Maldives | 4:58.06 |   |   | 6 | 28. |  |  |  Aishath Sausan 1:18.58, Mubal Azzam Ibrahim 1:19.87, Mohamed Aan Hussain 1:07.09, Hamna Ahmed 1:12.52 |   
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