Swimming at the 2006 Commonwealth Games – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games took place on 21 March at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Australia.

The Australian team of Matthew Welsh, Brenton Rickard, Michael Klim and Eamon Sullivan won gold in Commonwealth Games record time, ahead of England's Liam Tancock, Christopher Cook, Matthew Bowe and Ross Davenport. The Scottish team of Gregor Tait, Kristopher Gilchrist, Todd Cooper and Craig Houston finished third.

Records

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

World Record 3:30.68 Aaron Peirsol (53.45)
Brendan Hansen (59.37)
Ian Crocker (50.28)
Jason Lezak (47.58)
USA Athens, Greece 21 August 2004
Games Record 3:36.05 Matt Welsh
Jim Piper
Geoff Huegill
Ian Thorpe
AUS Manchester, England 4 August 2002

The Commonwealth Games record was broken by Australia in the final.

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes
1 2 5  Australia Andrew Lauterstein (55.65)
Christian Sprenger (1:02.76)
Adam Pine (53.10)
Kenrick Monk (49.96)
3:41.47 Q
2 1 5  Canada Brian Johns (57.35)
Scott Dickens (1:02.57)
Thomas Kindler (55.31)
Yannick Lupien (49.72)
3:44.95 Q
3 1 3  New Zealand Scott Talbot (58.69)
Glenn Snyders (1:03.41)
Corney Swanepoel (52.79)
Cameron Gibson (51.33)
3:46.22 Q
4 1 4  England Liam Tancock (57.76)
Chris Cook (1:02.28)
Matthew Bowe (55.21)
Ross Davenport (52.02)
3:47.27 Q
5 2 3  Scotland Gregor Tait (58.40)
Christopher Jones (1:03.29)
Todd Cooper (53.88)
Craig Houston (52.18)
3:47.75 Q
6 2 4  South Africa Garth Tune (58.08)
Thabang Moeketsane (1:03.47)
George du Rand (54.41)
Karl Thaning (51.98)
3:47.94 Q
7 2 6  Singapore Lee Yu Tan (59.04)
Jin Wen Tan (1:08.36)
Shirong Su (57.64)
Zhirong Tay (52.22)
3:57.26 Q
8 1 6  Jersey Liam du Feu (1:03.04)
Daniel Hawksworth (1:09.31)
Simon le Couilliard (55.98)
Alexis Militis (53.20)
4:01.53 Q
9 2 2  Guernsey Thomas Hollingsworth (1:00.16)
Jeremy Osborne (1:13.16)
Ian Powell (55.23)
Ian Hubert (54.08)
4:02.63

Final

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Time behind Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 4  Australia Matt Welsh (54.84)
Brenton Rickard (59.51)
Michael Klim (51.87)
Eamon Sullivan (48.15)
3:34.37 GR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 6  England Liam Tancock (54.42)
Chris Cook (1:00.29)
Matthew Bowe (52.53)
Ross Davenport (49.16)
3:36.40 2.03
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 2  Scotland Gregor Tait (55.15)
Kristopher Gilchrist (1:01.83)
Todd Cooper (52.85)
Craig Houston (49.92)
3:39.75 5.38
4 5  Canada Matthew Rose (56.29)
Scott Dickens (1:01.32)
Thomas Kindler (53.82)
Brent Hayden (48.44)
3:39.87 5.50
5 3  New Zealand Scott Talbot (55.77)
Glenn Snyders (1:02.88)
Moss Burmester (52.22)
Cameron Gibson (49.88)
3:40.75 6.38
6 7  South Africa Gerhald Zandberg (55.81)
Roland Schoeman (1:03.24)
Ryk Neethling (52.97)
Karl Thaning (49.76)
3:41.78 7.41
7 1  Singapore Lee Yu Tan (59.20)
Jin Wen Tan (1:07.43)
Shirong Su (57.51)
Jirong Tay (51.94)
3:56.08 21.71
8 8  Jersey Liam du Feu (1:03.20)
Daniel Hawksworth (1:08.85)
Simon le Couilliard (56.03)
Alexis Militis (52.84)
4:00.92 26.55

References

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