The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 December 2016.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordKatinka Hosszú4:19.46Netanya2 December 2015Championship recordMireia Belmonte4:19.86Doha3 December 2014

Results Heats The heats were held at 11:49.Heats Results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Katinka Hosszú 4:25.03 Q 2 2 2 Ella Eastin 4:29.64 Q 3 3 2 Mireia Belmonte 4:31.14 Q 4 2 4 Hannah Miley 4:31.48 Q 5 3 3 Barbora Závadová 4:32.06 Q 6 1 6 Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên 4:32.19 Q, NR 7 3 5 Yui Ohashi 4:32.20 Q 8 3 6 Madisyn Cox 4:34.50 Q 9 2 3 Abbie Wood 4:34.78 10 2 7 Sarah Darcel 4:35.66 11 2 6 Wakaba Tsuyuuchi 4:37.66 12 3 7 Fantine Lesaffre 4:38.18 13 2 5 Li Bingjie 4:40.03 14 2 0 Maxine Wolters 4:40.77 15 3 1 Victoria Kaminskaya 4:42.62 16 3 0 Martina van Berkel 4:43.43 17 1 3 Ajna Késely 4:44.40 18 3 8 Florencia Perotti 4:45.61 19 2 8 Phiangkhwan Pawapotako 4:45.71 NR 20 2 1 Kristýna Horská 4:47.22 21 2 9 Hamida Rania Nefsi 4:49.68 22 3 9 Souad Nefissa Cherouati 4:57.37 23 1 4 Alania Suttie 5:09.44 NR 24 1 5 Cecilia Medina 5:38.87

Final The final was held at 19:18.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Katinka Hosszú 4:21.67 5 Ella Eastin 4:27.74 8 Madisyn Cox 4:27.78 4 6 Hannah Miley 4:27.86 5 3 Mireia Belmonte 4:32.98 6 1 Yui Ohashi 4:33.07 7 2 Barbora Závadová 4:37.79 7 Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên

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