Swimming - Team Italy

General
The Italian men's 4x100m freestyle relay team failed to reach the final at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. They were the fastest non-qualifier, missing out on a place in the final by five hundredths of a second to Japan, and finished ranked ninth.

Italy first contested the event at the 1972 Games in Munich, and have twice come close to a medal. They placed fourth in 2004 and 2008 but on both occasions they finished more than a second behind the bronze medallists.

The Italians have been more successful in the event at the world championships, with one silver [2007] and two bronze medals [1975, 2015] to their name. At the most recent edition in 2019 in Gwangju, they finished fourth.