2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400m I.M.
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December 2010
Competitors:	28
Win Value:	4:24.21
Gold:	Mireia Belmonte
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Ye Shiwen
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Li Xuanxu
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

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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,^[1] from which the top-8 advanced to the final that evening.^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Julia Smit		align=left	4:21.04		18 December 2009
Championship record			align=left	4:26.52	Manchester	9 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	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	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

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley (heats) . Omega Timing . 2010-12-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124192540/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_8_Heats_Women_400_Medley.pdf . 24 January 2011 .
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley (final). Omega Timing. 2010-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124172410/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_108_Finals_1_Women_400_Medley.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.