Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	22 May
Competitors	40 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:03.47
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.37	Gold Coast	23 August 2014
European record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	3:59.15	Rome	26 July 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.53	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

The heats were held at 09:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	2	Martina De Memme	Italy	4:09.36	Q
2	5	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:09.60	Q
3	5	3	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:09.80	Q
4	5	6	Melani Costa	Spain	4:10.00	Q
5	4	5	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:10.25	Q
6	4	4	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:10.78	Q
7	5	4	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:12.08	Q
8	5	1	Camilla Hattersley	Great Britain	4:12.26	Q
9	5	7	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:13.09
10	4	6	Ajna Késely	Hungary	4:13.13
11	3	4	María Vilas	Spain	4:13.62
12	5	9	Antonia Massone	Germany	4:13.64
13	3	3	Paula Żukowska	Poland	4:14.46
14	4	3	Alice Mizzau	Italy	4:14.79
15	4	9	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:14.96
16	4	7	Ellie Faulkner	Great Britain	4:15.14
17	5	8	Tjasa Oder	Slovenia	4:15.83
18	4	1	Fantine Lesaffre	France	4:16.39
19	4	0	Diana Duraes	Portugal	4:16.45
20	3	7	Henriette Stenkvist	Sweden	4:16.75
21	2	6	Tereza Závadová	Czech Republic	4:16.80
22	5	0	Gaja Natlačen	Slovenia	4:16.88
23	3	5	Andrea Kneppers	Netherlands	4:16.94
24	2	5	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	4:17.11
25	2	7	Nika Petrič	Slovenia	4:18.01
26	3	9	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:18.57
27	2	1	Marte Løvberg	Norway	4:19.28
28	4	8	Esmee Vermeulen	Netherlands	4:19.80
29	3	1	Milena Karpisz	Poland	4:20.15
30	1	4	Jaqueline Hippi	Sweden	4:21.29
31	3	2	Monika Czerniak	Poland	4:22.29
32	2	3	Martina Elhenická	Czech Republic	4:22.89
33	3	8	Paulina Piechota	Poland	4:23.41
34	2	2	Aino Otava	Finland	4:24.11
35	2	8	Anniina Ala-Seppälä	Finland	4:26.98
36	1	3	Sara Lettoli	San Marino	4:27.20
37	2	9	Elena Giovannini	San Marino	4:27.75
38	3	0	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	4:27.83
39	1	5	Nejla Karić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:28.62
40	2	0	Sara Nysted	Faroe Islands	4:32.65
	2	4	Laura Lajunen	Finland	DNS
	3	6	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	DNS
	5	2	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	DNS

The final was held at 16:57.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	3	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:03.47
	7	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:04.85
	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:06.89
4	4	Martina De Memme	Italy	4:08.19
5	6	Melani Costa	Spain	4:09.10
6	1	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:09.50
7	2	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:09.51
7	8	Camilla Hattersley	Great Britain	4:09.51