The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 December 2016.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordMireia Belmonte3:54.52Berlin11 August 2013Championship recordMireia Belmonte3:55.76Doha5 December 2014

Results Heats The heats were held at 10:25.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Leah Smith 4:00.47 Q 2 6 5 Veronika Popova 4:01.11 Q, NR 3 5 2 Chihiro Igarashi 4:02.23 Q 4 6 4 Katinka Hosszú 4:02.38 Q 5 6 6 Ariarne Titmus 4:03.54 Q 6 6 3 Sharon van Rouwendaal 4:04.07 Q 7 6 8 Zhang Yuhan 4:04.49 Q 8 6 9 Aya Takano 4:04.89 Q 9 5 3 Ashley Twichell 4:05.27 10 4 7 Kennedy Goss 4:05.91 11 5 6 Arina Openysheva 4:06.31 12 6 1 Reva Foos 4:06.47 13 5 7 Kiah Melverton 4:06.51 14 4 2 Taylor Ruck 4:06.69 15 5 0 Li Bingjie 4:07.03 16 1 9 Abbie Wood 4:07.29 17 6 7 Georgia Coates 4:09.16 18 6 2 Viviane Jungblut 4:09.38 19 4 3 Robin Neumann 4:09.67 20 5 1 Diana Durães 4:10.18 NR 21 4 0 Celine Rieder 4:10.29 22 5 9 Martina Elhenická 4:10.38 23 4 4 Maria Ugolkova 4:10.60 24 4 5 Delfina Pignatiello 4:10.68 25 4 6 Julia Hassler 4:10.95 26 4 9 Maj Howardsen 4:11.51 27 4 8 Fantina Lesaffre 4:12.91 28 6 0 Gaja Natlacen 4:13.11 29 3 0 Helena Moreno 4:13.55 NR 30 3 3 Monique Olivier 4:15.28 31 3 7 Souad Nefissa Cherouati 4:15.72 32 3 5 Elisbet Gámez 4:16.69 NR 33 3 8 Nejla Karić 4:17.03 34 3 4 Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn 4:18.20 NR 35 4 1 Tamila Holub 4:18.76 36 1 5 Karen Torrez 4:20.24 37 3 2 Andrea Cedrón Rodríguez 4:20.25 38 3 6 Jessica Cattaneo 4:21.92 39 1 8 Christie Chue 4:22.49 40 2 4 Rosalee Mira Santa Ana 4:22.70 NR 41 2 6 Gabriella Doueihy 4:24.54 NR 42 3 9 Daniella van den Berg 4:25.18 43 3 1 Sara Nysted 4:25.85 44 2 3 Malavika Vishwanath 4:26.98 45 2 5 Ines Marin 4:30.09 46 2 7 Maeform Borriello 4:32.47 47 2 1 Fatima Alkaramova 4:32.51 NR 48 2 9 Alania Suttie 4:32.72 NR 49 1 3 Enkhkhuslen Batbayar 4:37.87 NR 50 2 8 Yara Lima 4:40.69 51 2 0 McKayla Treasure 4:42.12 52 1 2 Diana Basho 4:54.63 53 1 6 Tiana Rabarijaona 4:56.27 54 1 1 Osisang Chilton 4:59.21 NR 1 0 Federica Pellegrini 1 4 Dara Al-Bakry 1 7 Alesia Neziri 2 2 Talita Te Flan 5 5 Mireia Belmonte 5 8 Ajna Késely

Final The final was held at 19:16.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Leah Smith 3:57.78 5 Veronika Popova 3:58.90 NR 3 Chihiro Igarashi 3:59.41 NR 4 6 Katinka Hosszú 3:59.89 5 1 Zhang Yuhan 4:02.61 6 2 Ariarne Titmus 4:02.70 7 7 Sharon van Rouwendaal 4:03.69 8 8 Aya Takano 4:05.95

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