Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle explained

See main article: article and Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships. The women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March (preliminaries and finals) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 4:02.13, Laure Manaudou (France), 6 August 2006 in Budapest, Hungary
• Championship record (CR): 4:06.28, Tracey Wickham (Australia), at West Berlin 1978 (24 August 1978)

Results

Final

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Splits (50m, 100m, 150m...350m)	Time	Notes
	4			27.35   57.34   1:27.69   1:58.69 2:29.73   3:01.10   3:32.36	4:02.61	CR
	7			28.86   59.55   1:30.79   2:02.04 2:32.77   3:03.53   3:34.28	4:04.23	NR
	3			28.54   59.15   1:30.38   2:01.58 2:32.57   3:03.95   3:34.88	4:05.19	NR
4	8			29.16   1:00.14   1:30.80   2:02.68 2:33.35   3:04.33   3:35.20	4:05.65
5	5			28.94   59.86   1:30.80   2:02.16 2:33.04   3:04.46   3:35.38	4:05.79
6	6			28.88   59.69   1:30.74   2:02.30 2:33.44   3:05.04   3:36.63	4:06.99
7	1			28.39   59.36   1:30.35   2:02.08 2:33.33   3:05.16   3:36.56	4:07.42
8	2			28.36   59.39   1:30.66   2:02.27 2:33.63   3:05.23   3:36.69	4:07.64

Preliminary heats

Rank	Heat & Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	H9 L4			4:05.29	Q, CR
2	H9 L6			4:06.51	Q
3	H8 L5			4:07.17	Q
4	H8 L4			4:07.18	Q
5	H9 L5			4:07.26	Q
6	H7 L2			4:08.16	Q
7	H9 L3			4:08.17	Q
8	H7 L4			4:08.38	Q
8.5
9	H7 L5			4:08.52
10	H8 L3			4:08.99
11	H9 L7			4:09.80
12	H8 L7			4:10.85
13	H8 L2			4:11.37
14	H9 L2			4:11.40
15	H8 L6			4:11.83
16	H8 L1			4:11.85
17	H9 L1			4:11.98
18	H7 L8			4:12.99
19	H7 L1			4:13.92
20	H7 L6			4:13.94
21	H8 L8			4:14.68
22	H7 L3			4:15.40
23	H7 L7			4:16.71
24	H6 L5			4:17.50
25	H6 L6			4:20.05
26	H6 L8			4:20.84
27	H5 L4			4:22.17
28	H5 L8			4:22.43
29	H6 L4			4:22.59
30	H6 L1			4:22.76
31	H6 L7			4:23.57
32	H6 L2			4:24.07
33	H5 L7			4:24.38
34	H5 L5			4:24.47
35	H5 L6			4:24.96
36	H4 L5			4:25.13
37	H4 L7			4:26.23
38	H4 L4			4:26.97
39	H9 L8			4:27.29
40	H5 L3			4:30.50
41	H6 L3			4:30.56
42	H4 L2			4:30.98
43	H5 L1			4:32.08
44	H4 L8			4:32.85
45	H4 L3			4:32.98
46	H3 L7			4:34.47
47	H5 L2			4:35.96
48	H4 L1			4:36.04
49	H3 L2			4:36.15
50	H4 L6			4:36.23
51	H3 L6			4:37.84
52	H3 L4			4:38.06
53	H2 L6			4:41.26
54	H3 L3			4:42.33
55	H3 L5			4:43.79
56	H3 L8			4:44.24
57	H2 L1			4:44.96
58	H2 L5			4:47.43
59	H3 L1			4:50.32
60	H2 L3			4:58.89
61	H2 L7			5:01.53
62	H2 L4			5:03.89
63	H1 L4			5:05.03
64	H2 L8			5:11.10
65	H1 L5			5:27.81
999	H1 L3			DNS
999	H2 L2			DNS

References

• 2007 Worlds results: Women's 400m free--Prelims from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 World Championships); Retrieved 2009-07-09.
• 2007 Worlds results: Women's 400m free--Finals from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 World Championships); Retrieved 2009-07-09.