Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 24, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors	38 from 31 nations
Winning time	4:01.97
Medalists
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The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24. The heats and the final took place on July 24.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	3:59.15	Rome	July 26, 2009

Results

Heats

38 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:04.76	Q
2	3	4	Camille Muffat	France	4:05.62	Q
3	5	2	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	4:05.86	Q, NR
4	3	6	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:06.31	Q
5	5	5	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:06.38	Q
6	4	6	Melania Costa Schmid	Spain	4:07.02	Q, NR
7	5	4	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	4:07.38	Q
8	5	3	Katie Hoff	United States	4:07.93	Q
9	3	5	Chloe Sutton	United States	4:08.22
10	3	3	Shao Yiwen	China	4:08.42
11	4	5	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:08.62
12	5	1	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	4:08.80	NR
13	4	7	Barbara Jardin	Canada	4:08.81
14	3	2	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:09.15
15	4	3	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:09.64
16	5	7	Samantha Cheverton	Canada	4:09.81
17	4	2	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:10.36
18	3	7	Wendy Trott	South Africa	4:10.57
19	2	4	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	4:12.38	NR
20	4	1	Charetzeni Escobar	Mexico	4:13.38
21	4	8	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	4:15.46	NR
22	2	5	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	4:15.65
23	5	6	Song Wenyan	China	4:16.26
24	2	2	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	4:16.44
25	2	6	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:17.61	NR
26	2	3	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	4:18.57
27	3	1	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	4:18.84
28	2	8	Katarina Filova	Slovakia	4:21.14
29	1	7	Samantha Arevalo	Ecuador	4:21.84	NR
30	3	8	Alexia Benitez	El Salvador	4:22.59
31	1	5	Daniela Kaori Miyahara	Peru	4:23.33
32	5	8	Kim Ga-Eul	South Korea	4:23.94
33	1	4	Andrea Cedron	Peru	4:25.06
34	2	1	Shahd Osman	Egypt	4:26.35
35	2	7	Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn	Thailand	4:29.65
36	1	6	Victoria Chentsova	Northern Mariana Islands	5:18.67
37	1	2	Jennet Saryyeva	Turkmenistan	5:41.09
	1	3	Victoria Ho	Jamaica	DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:50.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.97
	1	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	4:04.01
	5	Camille Muffat	France	4:04.06
4	2	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:04.62
5	6	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:04.68	NR
6	3	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	4:06.11
7	8	Katie Hoff	United States	4:08.22
8	7	Melania Costa Schmid	Spain	4:09.66