Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400-metre individual medley
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	22 July 2001
Competitors:	22
Win Value:	4 minutes 36.98 seconds
Gold:	Yana Klochkova
Goldnoc:	UKR
Silver:	Martha Bowen
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Beatrice Câșlaru
Bronzenoc:	ROU
Prev:	1998
Next:	2003

See main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.

The women's 400-metre individual medley event at the 2001 World Aquatic Championships took place 22 July. Both the heats and final were held on 22 July.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

World record		4:33.59	Sydney, Australia	align=right	16 September 2000
Championship record		4:36.10	Guayaquil, Ecuador	align=right	1 August 1982

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	4:40.36	Q
2	4:41.31	Q
3	4:41.81	Q
4	4:42.52	Q
5	4:43.88	Q
6	4:44.65	Q
7	4:45.94	Q
8	4:46.05	Q
9	4:46.29
10	4:47.46
11	4:47.55
12	4:48.54
13	4:49.26
14	4:49.45
15	4:50.60
16	4:52.31
17	4:53.01
18	4:57.73
19	4:57.91
20	5:04.79
21	5:09.31
22	5:11.33

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			4:36.98
			4:39.06
			4:39.33
4			4:41.64
5			4:43.13
6			4:44.77
7			4:48.47
–			DSQ

Key: WR = World record

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024105227/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay1.html#400IMW . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019123645/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsW400medley.html . 19 October 2004 .