Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 31, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors:	37
Nations:	30
Win Value:	4:31.78
Gold:	Elizabeth Beisel
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Hannah Miley
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Stephanie Rice
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 31 with the heats the final.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Stephanie Rice		align=left	4:29.45	Beijing	August 10, 2008
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú		align=left	4:30.31	Rome	August 2, 2009

36 swimmers participated in 5 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	4:34.95	Q
2	4	5	4:36.36	Q
3	3	5	4:36.78	Q
4	5	8	4:36.96	Q, NR
5	5	2	4:37.32	Q
6	5	4	4:37.39	Q
7	5	3	4:37.61	Q
8	4	4	4:38.18	Q
9	4	7	4:38.82
10	5	6	4:38.84
11	3	1	4:41.07
12	4	6	4:41.23
13	4	8	4:41.33	NR
14	4	3	4:42.52
15	5	5	4:42.96
16	5	1	4:44.53
17	3	8	4:44.85
18	4	1	4:45.26
19	3	3	4:45.32
20	5	7	4:45.53
21	3	6	4:47.41
22	2	4	4:48.09
23	2	5	4:48.17
24	3	2	4:48.31
25	4	2	4:48.40
26	2	2	4:48.97
27	2	6	4:49.95	=NR
28	2	7	4:51.65
29	2	1	4:51.89
30	2	3	4:52.49
31	2	8	4:58.87
32	1	4	5:03.07
33	1	5	5:11.28
34	1	3	5:16.41
35	1	6	5:18.27
36	1	2	5:37.11	NR
–	3	7		DNS

The final was held at 19:19.^[2]

Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-31.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-31. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131194548/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_139_Heat1_Women_400_Medley.pdf. 2012-01-31.