Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre freestyle
Competition:	2013 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	June 21, 2013
Competitors:	13
Nations:	8
Win Value:	4:09.18
Gold:	Martina De Memme
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Anja Klinar
Silvernoc:	SLO
Bronze:	Claudia Dasca
Bronzenoc:	ESP

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.^[1]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool in freestyle.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record		3:59.15	Rome, Italy	July 26, 2009
Mediterranean Games record		4:00.41	Pescara, Italy	June 27, 2009

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

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width=40	Rank	width=40	Heat	width=40	Lane	width=250	Athlete	width=80	Time	width=50	Notes
1	2	4		4:14.36	Q
2	1	4		4:16.40	Q
3	1	3		4:16.81	Q
4	1	5		4:18.29	Q
5	2	5		4:20.06	Q
6	2	6		4:21.20	Q
7	2	3		4:21.66	Q
8	1	2		4:22.83	Q
9	2	2		4:23.19
10	1	7		4:25.67
11	1	2		4:28.60
11	2	7		4:30.21
12	2	1		4:36.14

Final

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width=40	Rank	width=40	Lane	width=250	Athlete	width=80	Time	width=50	Notes
	4		4:09.18
	5		4:11.61
	6		4:12.41
4	2		4:16.03
5	3		4:17.36
6	1		4:22.38
7	8		4:22.73
8	7		4:25.31

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sessions. Mersin 2013. 20 June 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130622023520/http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineDetails_SW.aspx. 22 June 2013.
2. http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineResults_SW.aspx?match_code=SWW052101 Swimming - Women's 400m free Heat 1 (Result)
3. http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineResults_SW.aspx?match_code=SWW052102 Swimming - Women's 400m free Heat 2 (Result)
4. http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineResults_SW.aspx?match_code=SWW014301 Swimming - Women's 400m Freestyle Final (Official)