The heats and finals for the women's 400 m individual medley race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley is: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 4:29.45 Beijing, China 10 August 2008 Championship record 4:32.89 Melbourne, Australia 1 April 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 2 August Final Katinka Hosszú Hungary 4:30.31 CR

Results

Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Stephanie Rice 4:34.62 6 4 2 Elizabeth Beisel 4:34.80 6 5 3 Katinka Hosszú 4:35.15 5 5 4 Tanya Hunks 4:35.84 5 8 NR 4 Julia Smit 4:35.84 6 3 6 Hannah Miley 4:36.27 4 4 7 Kirsty Coventry 4:36.42 5 4 8 Zsuzsanna Jakabos 4:37.47 6 6 9 Samantha Hamill 4:37.84 6 1 10 Julie Hjorth-Hansen 4:38.20 5 1 NR 11 Alessia Filippi 4:39.58 4 5 12 Yana Martynova 4:39.83 5 3 13 Keri-anne Payne 4:40.92 5 6 14 Anja Klinar 4:41.00 4 6 15 Annika Mehlhorn 4:41.20 5 0 16 Alexa Komarnycky 4:41.55 5 2 17 Barbora Závadová 4:41.90 3 2 18 Stina Gardell 4:42.71 4 9 NR 19 Anastasia Ivanenko 4:42.96 6 8 20 Gráinne Murphy 4:43.20 3 4 21 Francesca Segat 4:43.77 4 8 22 Joanna Maranhão 4:43.87 4 2 23 Karolina Szczepaniak 4:45.13 3 5 24 Jessica Pengelly 4:46.31 4 1 25 Asami Kitagawa 4:46.57 6 9 26 Lara Grangeon 4:46.93 5 7 27 Maiko Fujino 4:47.11 4 7 28 Zheng Rongrong 4:48.87 5 9 29 Jordis Steinegger 4:49.74 6 0 30 Marina Ribi 4:50.53 3 0 NR 31 Katheryn Meaklim 4:51.09 4 3 32 Nuala Murphy 4:52.12 3 1 33 Paula Zukowska 4:53.52 3 7 34 Nina Dittrich 4:55.10 1 3 35 Nika Karlina Petric 4:58.90 3 6 36 Maroua Mathlouthi 5:00.95 3 9 37 Koh Hui Yu 5:02.13 2 7 38 Chen Ting 5:02.97 2 3 39 Erika Stewart 5:04.24 1 5 40 Maria Coy 5:06.74 2 5 41 Ting Sheng-Yo 5:07.73 2 8 42 Koh Ting Ting 5:09.52 2 6 43 Nibal Yamout 5:13.71 2 2 44 Pooja Raghava Alva 5:28.37 2 0 45 Stephanie Rasoamanana 5:56.61 2 9 – Sakina Ghulam DNS 1 4 – Sara Nordenstam DNS 6 7 – Samantha Arevalo DQ 2 1 – Tetyana Khala DQ 2 4 – Louise Mai Jansen DQ 3 3 – Anna-Liisa Põld DQ 3 8 – Liu Jing DQ 4 0 – Mireia Belmonte García DQ 6 2

Finals Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes Katinka Hosszú 4:30.31 3 CR, ER Kirsty Coventry 4:32.12 1 Stephanie Rice 4:32.29 4 4 Hannah Miley 4:32.72 7 5 Elizabeth Beisel 4:34.90 5 6 Julia Smit 4:35.33 2 7 Zsuzsanna Jakabos 4:37.85 8 8 Tanya Hunks 4:38.15 6

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