The men's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 15 and August 17 at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. This swimming event uses medley swimming as a relay. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool, each using a different stroke. The first on each team used the backstroke, the second used the breaststroke, the third used the butterfly stroke, and the final swimmer used freestyle . The first swimmer must touch the wall before the next can leave the starting block, and so... forth; timing of the starts is thus important. Two heats are held, with each containing the maximum number of teams . The heat in which a team competed does not formally matter for advancement, as the teams with the top eight times from the entire field qualifies for the final; there, they all compete in a single heat to earn final placements.
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August 15, 2008 - August 17, 2008
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