Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Date	July 28, 2013 (heats & final)
Competitors	37 from 30 nations
Winning time	3:59.82 AM
Medalists
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The women's 400 meter freestyle event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	3:59.15	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009	^[3]
Competition record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	3:59.15	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009	^[3]

The heats were held at 11:22.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Katie Ledecky	United States	4:03.05	Q
2	4	6	Melanie Costa	Spain	4:04.20	Q
3	2	5	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:04.85	Q
4	3	3	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	4:04.96	Q
5	2	3	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:05.01	Q
6	4	4	Camille Muffat	France	4:05.53	Q
7	2	6	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:05.61	Q, NR
8	3	2	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	4:06.02	Q, NR
9	4	3	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	4:06.76
10	4	2	Chloe Sutton	United States	4:07.16
11	3	7	Martina de Memme	Italy	4:08.42
12	3	6	Shao Yiwen	China	4:09.16
13	3	4	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:09.65
14	2	4	Coralie Balmy	France	4:10.70
15	3	1	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	4:12.44
16	4	1	Savannah King	Canada	4:12.47
17	4	7	Ellie Faulkner	Great Britain	4:13.18
18	4	0	Susana Escobar	Mexico	4:13.37
19	2	7	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:13.89
20	2	2	Zhang Wenqing	China	4:14.66
21	3	8	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:14.68
22	2	9	Lynette Lim	Singapore	4:14.76
23	2	1	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:16.13
24	4	8	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	4:18.94
25	4	9	Kyna Pereira	South Africa	4:19.66
26	2	8	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	4:19.77
27	1	5	Katya Bachrouche	Lebanon	4:20.46
28	2	0	Tjasa Oder	Slovenia	4:20.82
29	3	0	Carolina Bilich	Brazil	4:21.40
30	3	9	Khoo Cai Lin	Malaysia	4:23.67
31	1	3	Andrea Cedrón	Peru	4:28.78
32	1	4	Raina Ramdhani	Indonesia	4:29.61
33	1	6	Daniela Benavides	Cuba	4:35.85
34	1	2	Alexis Clarke	Barbados	4:42.82
35	1	1	San Khant Khant Su	Myanmar	4:54.89
36	1	7	Monica Saili	Samoa	4:55.49
37	1	8	Victoria Chentsova	Northern Mariana Islands	4:59.78
	4	5	Lotte Friis	Denmark		DNS

The final was held at 18:57.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:59.82	AM
	5	Melanie Costa	Spain	4:02.47	NR
	6	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	4:03.89
4	3	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:04.03
5	1	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:05.90
6	8	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	4:07.14
7	7	Camille Muffat	France	4:07.67
8	2	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:08.13