The Women's 400m Individual Medley (IM) at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1 April (prelims & finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. As the event was over 200 meters in length, no semifinals were held in it and the top 8 swimmers from the preliminary heats advance directly to the single final heat. 40 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 48 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World Record (WR): 4:33.59, Yana Klochkova (Ukraine), 16 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia Championship Record (CR): 4:36.07, Katie Hoff (USA), Montreal 2005 (31 July 2005)

Results

Finals Place Name Nationality Time Note 1st Katie Hoff 4:32.89 Splits: 29.83/1:03.91 1:39.49/2:14.10 2:51.50/3:29.68 4:01.64/4:32.89 2nd Yana Martynova 4:40.14 3rd Stephanie Rice 4:41.19 4th Jennifer Reilly 4:41.53 5th Ariana Kukors 4:41.87 6th Yu Rui 4:44.49 7th Georgina Bardach 4:45.61 8th Julie Hjorth-Hansen 4:46.97

Preliminaries Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Katie Hoff 4:38.21 Q 2 Jennifer Reilly 4:40.12 Q 3 Yana Martynova 4:42.65 Q 4 Ariana Kukors 4:42.80 Q 5 Julie Hjorth-Hansen 4:43.19 Q 6 Stephanie Rice 4:43.85 Q 7 Georgina Bardach 4:43.88 Q 8 Yu Rui 4:44.34 Q 9 Helen Norfolk 4:44.79 10 Nicole Hetzer 4:45.27 11 Katinka Hosszú 4:46.19 12 Mireia Belmonte García 4:46.68 13 Anja Klinar 4:49.64 14 QI Hui 4:49.97 15 Camille Muffat 4:50.22 16 Hye Ra Choi 4:52.75 17 Sara Thydén 4:53.69 18 Maroua Mathlouthi 4:54.31 19 Sophie de Ronchi 4:54.60 20 Louise Mai Jansen 4:55.51 21 Ji Yeon Jung 4:57.35 22 Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn 4:58.08 23 Carmen Nam 4:59.67 24 Melanie Nocher 4:59.82 25 Ting Wen Quah 5:01.59 26 Man Hsu Lin 5:02.90 27 Yih Shiuan Chan 5:12.96 28 Ranohon Amanova 5:17.97 29 Maftunabonu Tuhtasinova 5:18.78 30 Jonay Briedenhann 5:21.89 31 Marike Meyer 5:24.37 32 Madhavi Giri Govind 5:28.93 33 Layla Alghul 5:38.65 34 Herinantenaina Ravoajanahary 5:42.24 35 Hiba Bashouti 5:47.28 36 Tojohanitra   Andriamanjatoprimamama 5:48.31 37 Sakina Ghulam 6:05.32 -- Anna Khlistunova DNS -- Alessia Filippi DNS -- Kirsty Coventry DQ

See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

References

Women's 400m IM Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. Women's 400m Medley Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.