The Women's 400 Individual Medley (or "I.M.") at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum on 15 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 28 swimmers swam in the morning preliminary heats, from which the top-8 advanced to the final that evening.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordJulia Smit 4:21.04 Manchester 18 December 2009 Championship record Kirsty Coventry 4:26.52 Manchester 9 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationTimeWRCR 15 December 2010 Final Mireia Belmonte 4:24.21 CR

Results

Heats Rank Heat Lane Name Time Notes 1 4 5 4:30.92 Q 2 4 4 4:31.04 Q 3 2 4 4:31.90 Q 4 1 6 4:32.16 Q 5 3 4 4:32.37 Q 6 2 5 4:33.64 Q 7 4 3 4:33.74 Q 8 3 3 4:35.60 Q 9 2 6 4:35.91 10 3 7 4:36.93 11 2 3 4:37.68 12 4 6 4:39.08 13 3 6 4:39.58 14 3 2 4:39.84 15 2 2 4:42.22 16 2 7 4:45.40 17 4 2 4:47.55 18 3 8 4:48.22 19 4 7 4:50.12 20 2 1 4:53.05 21 4 1 4:54.87 22 3 1 4:55.06 23 1 4 4:58.88 24 4 8 5:01.08 25 2 8 5:08.33 26 1 5 5:10.77 27 1 3 5:33.05 – 3 5 DSQ

Final Rank Lane Name Time Notes 2 4:24.21 CR 3 4:24.55 6 4:29.05 4 5 4:29.77 5 4 4:30.44 6 7 4:31.01 7 1 4:35.01 8 8 4:36.16

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