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 DateWorld recordChampionship recordFederica Pellegrini3:59.15RomeJuly 26, 2009

Results

Heats

38 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Federica Pellegrini 4:04.76 Q 2 3 4 Camille Muffat 4:05.62 Q 3 5 2 Lauren Boyle 4:05.86 Q, NR 4 3 6 Lotte Friis 4:06.31 Q 5 5 5 Kylie Palmer 4:06.38 Q 6 4 6 Melania Costa Schmid 4:07.02 Q, NR 7 5 4 Rebecca Adlington 4:07.38 Q 8 5 3 Katie Hoff 4:07.93 Q 9 3 5 Chloe Sutton 4:08.22 10 3 3 Shao Yiwen 4:08.42 11 4 5 Bronte Barratt 4:08.62 12 5 1 Andreina Pinto 4:08.80 NR 13 4 7 Barbara Jardin 4:08.81 14 3 2 Boglárka Kapás 4:09.15 15 4 3 Jazmin Carlin 4:09.64 16 5 7 Samantha Cheverton 4:09.81 17 4 2 Camelia Potec 4:10.36 18 3 7 Wendy Trott 4:10.57 19 2 4 Nina Rangelova 4:12.38 NR 20 4 1 Charetzeni Escobar 4:13.38 21 4 8 Anna Stylianou 4:15.46 NR 22 2 5 Daryna Zevina 4:15.65 23 5 6 Song Wenyan 4:16.26 24 2 2 Sycerika McMahon 4:16.44 25 2 6 Julia Hassler 4:17.61 NR 26 2 3 Virginia Bardach 4:18.57 27 3 1 Cecilie Johannessen 4:18.84 28 2 8 Katarina Filova 4:21.14 29 1 7 Samantha Arevalo 4:21.84 NR 30 3 8 Alexia Benitez 4:22.59 31 1 5 Daniela Miyahara 4:23.33 32 5 8 Kim Ga-Eul 4:23.94 33 1 4 Andrea Cedrón 4:25.06 34 2 1 Shahd Osman 4:26.35 35 2 7 Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn 4:29.65 36 1 6 Victoria Chentsova 5:18.67 37 1 2 Jennet Saryyeva 5:41.09 1 3 Victoria Ho DNS

Final The final was held at 18:50.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Federica Pellegrini 4:01.97 1 Rebecca Adlington 4:04.01 5 Camille Muffat 4:04.06 4 2 Kylie Palmer 4:04.62 5 6 Lotte Friis 4:04.68 NR 6 3 Lauren Boyle 4:06.11 7 8 Katie Hoff 4:08.22 8 7 Melania Costa Schmid 4:09.66

References

External links 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 400 metre freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.