The women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held 23 July 2025. Francisca Martins from Portugal won the gold medal, Cavan Gormsen from the United States took the silver medal and Michaela Mattes from the United States earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round23 July 09:00 Heats 19:56 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Summer McIntosh 3:54.18 7 June 2025 Victoria, Canada 2025 Canadian Trials Universiade record Sarah Köhler 4:03.96 26 August 2017 Taipei, Chinese Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 8 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 4 4 4:12.30 2 4 3 4:12.39 3 5 4 4:12.42 4 4 1 4:12.59 5 5 3 4:12.77 6 4 5 4:12.83 7 4 6 4:13.26 8 4 7 4:14.98 9 4 8 4:15.20 10 5 6 4:16.04 11 3 2 4:16.71 12 5 8 4:16.89 13 3 1 Han Da-kyung 4:18.03 14 3 8 4:19.18 15 3 4 4:19.22 16 5 1 4:19.23 17 2 5 4:19.25 18 3 6 4:19.32 19 5 5 Ai Yanhan 4:19.76 20 3 3 4:19.84 21 5 7 4:20.36 22 5 2 4:20.85 23 4 2 4:21.59 24 2 4 4:21.85 25 3 5 4:22.47 26 2 7 4:23.46 27 2 2 4:24.29 28 1 3 4:28.27 29 3 7 4:28.37 30 1 4 4:31.11 31 1 8 4:35.83 32 2 8 4:37.59 33 1 1 4:39.31 34 2 1 4:40.04 35 1 2 4:40.27 36 1 6 4:50.18 37 1 7 4:54.53 — 1 5 — 2 3
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 7 4:07.50 4 4:07.64 5 4:09.88 4 3 4:10.14 5 6 4:10.36 6 1 4:11.90 7 2 4:13.67 8 8 4:14.53
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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