The national team of Russia, consisting of Kliment Kolesnikov, Kirill Prigoda, Mikhail Vekovishchev and Vladimir Morozov, showed a result of 3 minutes 20.61 seconds.
World champions at this distance were swimmers of the US team (3.19.98).
Bronze won the Japanese (3.21,07).
Earlier it was reported that Yevgeny Rylov won gold at a distance of 200 m at the back.