General
The ROC men's 4x200m freestyle relay team qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo through a second-place finish at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju. Previously, the Russian Federation have competed at five editions of the Games, making their debut in Sydney in 2000 and winning their only medal to date, a silver, at Beijing in 2008. Prior to the 1990s, the Soviet Union won a single Olympic gold in the event, at the 1980 Games in Moscow, as well as one silver and three bronze medals.
At the most recent Olympic Games, the Russian team registered the third-fastest time in the heats in 2016 in Rio but could only finish fifth in the final, more than two seconds behind Japan in the bronze medal position.
At the world championships, the Russian team are yet to win a gold medal but they have claimed silver on five occasions. They were runners-up for the first time at the 1994 edition of the tournament, and claimed back-to-back silver medals at the two most recent editions. In 2017 they finished 0.98s behind winners Great Britain, and in 2019 in Gwangju they finished 0.96s behind the victorious Australian team.
The Russian team won gold by more than a second ahead of Great Britain at the European championships in 2021, to claim their first continental title since the 2010 edition of the tournament.
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