2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400m Individual Medley
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	12 December (heats and final)
Win Value:	4:23.14
Gold:	Hannah Miley
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Ye Shiwen
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Katinka Hosszú
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

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The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 12 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

Prior to this 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	4:24.21		15 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

25 swimmers participated in 3 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	4		4:28.91	Q
2	2	4		4:29.22	Q
3	3	5		4:29.98	Q
4	1	4		4:30.88	Q
5	2	5		4:31.71	Q
6	3	3		4:32.49	Q
7	1	2		4:33.01	Q
8	1	5		4:34.67	Q
9	1	6		4:34.70
10	2	3		4:37.66
11	3	6		4:37.84
12	1	0		4:38.93
13	3	7		4:40.04
14	2	6		4:40.19
14	2	7		4:40.19
16	3	1		4:40.45
17	1	3		4:42.14
18	2	8		4:42.22	NR
19	3	2		4:45.45
20	1	7		4:45.66
21	1	1		4:50.85
22	2	0		4:52.29
23	3	8		5:00.97
24	3	0		5:24.51
	2	1
	1	8
	2	2

Final

The final was held at 20:16.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			4:23.14	CR, ER
	3			4:23.33
	5			4:25.95
4	6			4:26.99
5	1			4:28.55
6	2			4:31.55
7	7			4:35.59
8	8			4:37.30

External links

• 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m): Women's 400 metre medley entry list, from OmegaTiming.com.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre medley (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20121217050740/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01042500FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-17. dead.
2. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre medley (finals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20121214203052/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01042502FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-14. dead.