2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	6 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	24
Nations:	18
Win Value:	4:21.67
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Ella Eastin
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Madisyn Cox
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katinka Hosszú		4:19.46	Netanya	2 December 2015
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte		4:19.86	Doha	3 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:49.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4			4:25.03	Q
2	2	2			4:29.64	Q
3	3	2			4:31.14	Q
4	2	4			4:31.48	Q
5	3	3			4:32.06	Q
6	1	6			4:32.19	Q, NR
7	3	5			4:32.20	Q
8	3	6			4:34.50	Q
9	2	3			4:34.78
10	2	7			4:35.66
11	2	6			4:37.66
12	3	7			4:38.18
13	2	5			4:40.03
14	2	0			4:40.77
15	3	1			4:42.62
16	3	0			4:43.43
17	1	3			4:44.40
18	3	8			4:45.61
19	2	8			4:45.71	NR
20	2	1			4:47.22
21	2	9			4:49.68
22	3	9			4:57.37
23	1	4			5:09.44	NR
24	1	5			5:38.87

Final

The final was held at 19:18.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			4:21.67
	5			4:27.74
	8			4:27.78
4	6			4:27.86
5	3			4:32.98
6	1			4:33.07
7	2			4:37.79
	7

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01042500FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats Results
3. Web site: Final Results . 2017-06-23 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329112734/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01042502FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .