2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	9 December (heats and final)
Competitors	54 from 43 nations
Winning time	3:57.78
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 December 2016.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	3:54.52	Berlin	11 August 2013
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	3:55.76	Doha	5 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:25.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Leah Smith	United States	4:00.47	Q
2	6	5	Veronika Popova	Russia	4:01.11	Q, NR
3	5	2	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	4:02.23	Q
4	6	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:02.38	Q
5	6	6	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	4:03.54	Q
6	6	3	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:04.07	Q
7	6	8	Zhang Yuhan	China	4:04.49	Q
8	6	9	Aya Takano	Japan	4:04.89	Q
9	5	3	Ashley Twichell	United States	4:05.27
10	4	7	Kennedy Goss	Canada	4:05.91
11	5	6	Arina Openysheva	Russia	4:06.31
12	6	1	Reva Foos	Germany	4:06.47
13	5	7	Kiah Melverton	Australia	4:06.51
14	4	2	Taylor Ruck	Canada	4:06.69
15	5	0	Li Bingjie	China	4:07.03
16	1	9	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	4:07.29
17	6	7	Georgia Coates	Great Britain	4:09.16
18	6	2	Viviane Jungblut	Brazil	4:09.38
19	4	3	Robin Neumann	Netherlands	4:09.67
20	5	1	Diana Durães	Portugal	4:10.18	NR
21	4	0	Celine Rieder	Germany	4:10.29
22	5	9	Martina Elhenická	Czech Republic	4:10.38
23	4	4	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	4:10.60
24	4	5	Delfina Pignatiello	Argentina	4:10.68
25	4	6	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:10.95
26	4	9	Maj Howardsen	Denmark	4:11.51
27	4	8	Fantina Lesaffre	France	4:12.91
28	6	0	Gaja Natlacen	Slovenia	4:13.11
29	3	0	Helena Moreno	Costa Rica	4:13.55	NR
30	3	3	Monique Olivier	Luxembourg	4:15.28
31	3	7	Souad Nefissa Cherouati	Algeria	4:15.72
32	3	5	Elisbet Gámez	Cuba	4:16.69	NR
33	3	8	Nejla Karić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:17.03
34	3	4	Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn	Thailand	4:18.20	NR
35	4	1	Tamila Holub	Portugal	4:18.76
36	1	5	Karen Torrez	Bolivia	4:20.24
37	3	2	Andrea Cedrón Rodríguez	Peru	4:20.25
38	3	6	Jessica Cattaneo	Peru	4:21.92
39	1	8	Christie Chue	Singapore	4:22.49
40	2	4	Rosalee Mira Santa Ana	Philippines	4:22.70	NR
41	2	6	Gabriella Doueihy	Lebanon	4:24.54	NR
42	3	9	Daniella van den Berg	Aruba	4:25.18
43	3	1	Sara Nysted	Faroe Islands	4:25.85
44	2	3	Malavika Vishwanath	India	4:26.98
45	2	5	Ines Marin	Chile	4:30.09
46	2	7	Maeform Borriello	Honduras	4:32.47
47	2	1	Fatima Alkaramova	Azerbaijan	4:32.51	NR
48	2	9	Alania Suttie	Samoa	4:32.72	NR
49	1	3	Enkhkhuslen Batbayar	Mongolia	4:37.87	NR
50	2	8	Yara Lima	Angola	4:40.69
51	2	0	McKayla Treasure	Barbados	4:42.12
52	1	2	Diana Basho	Albania	4:54.63
53	1	6	Tiana Rabarijaona	Madagascar	4:56.27
54	1	1	Osisang Chilton	Palau	4:59.21	NR
	1	0	Federica Pellegrini	Italy		DNS
	1	4	Dara Al-Bakry	Jordan		DNS
	1	7	Alesia Neziri	Albania		DNS
	2	2	Talita Te Flan	Ivory Coast		DNS
	5	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain		DNS
	5	8	Ajna Késely	Hungary		DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:16.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Leah Smith	United States	3:57.78
	5	Veronika Popova	Russia	3:58.90	NR
	3	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	3:59.41	NR
4	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	3:59.89
5	1	Zhang Yuhan	China	4:02.61
6	2	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	4:02.70
7	7	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:03.69
8	8	Aya Takano	Japan	4:05.95

References

↑ "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
↑ "Heats results".
↑ "Final results". Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-06-14.

[1] "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2016-12-06.

[2] "Heats results".

[3] "Final results". Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-06-14.

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