2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates:	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	30
Nations:	23
Win Value:	4:21.40
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Melanie Margalis
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Fantine Lesaffre
Bronzenoc:	FRA
Prev:	2016
Next:	2021

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2018.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mireia Belmonte		4:18.94	Netanya	12 August 2017
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte		4:19.86	Doha	3 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 11:05.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4			4:23.59	Q
2	2	3			4:27.74	Q
3	2	6			4:27.91	Q
4	2	5			4:28.02	Q
5	3	1			4:29.14	Q
6	2	4			4:31.02	Q
7	3	6			4:31.12	Q
8	3	5			4:31.13	Q
9	3	2			4:33.23
10	2	2			4:34.93
11	3	3			4:35.34
12	1	3			4:36.68
13	2	0			4:37.28
14	3	7			4:37.33
15	3	8			4:37.42
16	2	7			4:37.54
17	2	1			4:38.49
18	3	0			4:39.31
19	1	6			4:39.76
20	2	9			4:39.81
21	3	9			4:40.00
22	1	5			4:40.67
23	2	8			4:41.43
24	1	2			4:43.91
25	1	7			4:47.47
26	1	4			4:48.83
27	1	8			4:53.29
28	1	1			4:54.25
29	1	0			4:54.87
30	1	9			5:01.36	NR

Final

The final was held at 19:48.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			4:21.40
	2			4:25.84
	5			4:27.31	=NR
4	6			4:27.88
5	3			4:29.56
6	1			4:31.07
7	7			4:31.63
8	8			4:35.62

Notes and References

1. Web site: Competition Schedule. Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. 10 December 2018.
2. Web site: Heats results . 2018-12-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181214064818/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0205EF01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-14 . dead .
3. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0205EF04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Final results