| Rank |
Heat |
Lane |
NOC |
Names |
Time |
Notes |
| 1 |
1 |
4 |
United States |
Nathan Adrian 48.82
Cullen Jones 47.61
Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner 48.03
Matt Grevers 47.77 |
3:12.23 |
Q, WR |
| 2 |
2 |
4 |
France |
Amaury Leveaux 47.76 OR
Gregory Mallet 48.14
Boris Steimetz 49.83
Frederick Bousquet 46.63 |
3:12.36 |
Q, ER |
| 3 |
1 |
5 |
Australia |
Andrew Lauterstein 48.68
Leith Brodie 48.42
Patrick Murphy 48.09
Matt Targett 47.22 |
3:12.41 |
Q, OC |
| 4 |
2 |
5 |
Italy |
Alessandro Calvi 48.58
Christian Galenda 47.67
Michele Santucci 49.56
Filippo Magnini 46.84 |
3:12.65 |
Q |
| 5 |
1 |
3 |
Sweden |
Stefan Nystrand 48.31
v 48.41
Lars Frolander 48.35
Jonas Persson 47.66 |
3:12.73 |
Q |
| 6 |
2 |
3 |
South Africa |
Lyndon Ferns 48.20
Roland Schoeman 48.85
Ryk Neethling 48.51
Darian Townsend 47.50 |
3:13.06 |
Q, AF |
| 7 |
1 |
2 |
Canada |
Brent Hayden 48.28
Joel Greenshields 48.06
Rick Say 49.11
Colin Russell 48.23 |
3:13.68 |
Q |
| 8 |
2 |
1 |
Great Britain |
Simon Burnett 48.20 NR
Adam Brown 48.43
Benjamin Hockin 48.55
Ross Davenport 48.51 |
3:13.69 |
Q, NR |
| 9 |
2 |
6 |
Russia |
Evgeniy Lagunov 48.45
Andrey Grechin 48.08
Andrey Kapralov 49.07
Sergey Fesikov 48.47 |
3:14.07 |
|
| 10 |
1 |
6 |
Netherlands |
Mitja Zastrow 49.40
Pieter van den Hoogenband 47.17
Bas van Velthoven 49.08
Robert Lijesen 49.25 |
3:14.90 |
|
| 11 |
1 |
7 |
New Zealand |
Mark Herring 49.73
Cam Gibson 48.07
Willy Benson 48.65
Orinoco Faamausili-Banse-Prince 48.96 |
3:15.41 |
|
| 12 |
2 |
7 |
China |
Zuo Chen 49.16
Shaohua Huang 48.83
Zhiwu Lu 48.72
Li Cai 49.45 |
3:16.16 |
AS |
| 13 |
2 |
8 |
Switzerland |
Dominik Meichtry 48.96
Karel Novy 48.60
Flori Lang 49.34
Adrien Perez 49.90 |
3:16.80 |
|
| 14 |
1 |
8 |
Japan |
Takuro Fukii 49.15
Hisayoshi Sato 48.92
Masayuki Kishida 50.00
Yoshihiro Okumura 49.21 |
3:17.28 |
|
| 15 |
1 |
1 |
Germany |
Steffen Deibler 49.61
Jens Schreiber 49.58
Benjamin Starke 49.65
Paul Biedermann 49.15 |
3:17.99 |
|
| 16 |
2 |
2 |
Brazil |
César Cielo Filho 47.91
Rodrigo Castro 49.23
Fernando Silva 49.53
Nicolas Oliveira |
DSQ |
|