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

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Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Games:	2013 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	23 June
Venue:	Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool
Location:	Mersin, Turkey
Competitors:	12
Nations:	8
Win Value:	4:40.49
Gold:	Anja Klinar
Gold Nation:	SLO
Silver:	María Vilas
Silver Nation:	ESP
Bronze:	Claudia Dasca Romeu
Bronze Nation:	ESP
Prev:	2009
Next:	2018

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 23 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.^[1]

Schedule

All times are Eastern European Summer Time

width=220	Date	width=50	Time	width=100	Event
Sunday, 23 June 2013	10:16	Heats
	19:00	Final

Records

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

World record		4:28.43	London, United Kingdom	28 July 2012
Mediterranean Games record		4:39.48	Pescara, Italy	29 June 2009

Results

Heats

^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Stefania Pirozzi		4:48.03	Q
2	2	4	Anja Klinar		4:48.44	Q
3	1	5	María Vilas		4:50.81	Q
4	1	3	Fantine Lesaffre		4:52.72	Q
5	2	5	Claudia Dasca Romeu		4:53.17	Q
6	2	3	Carlotta Toni		4:55.35	Q
7	1	6	Afroditi Giareni		4:57.63	Q
8	2	2	Melisa Akarsu		4:59.16	Q
9	2	6	Sarra Lajnef		5:02.64
10	2	7	Souad Cherouati		5:04.24
11	1	2	Duygu Birol		5:09.17
	1	7	Zeineb Khalfallah		DNS

Final

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Anja Klinar		4:40.49
	3	María Vilas		4:44.58
	2	Claudia Dasca Romeu		4:46.64
4	6	Fantine Lesaffre		4:47.10
5	1	Afroditi Giareni		4:57.62
6	8	Melisa Akarsu		4:57.64
	4	Stefania Pirozzi		DQ
	7	Carlotta Toni		DQ

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:80/pdf/SW/SWW054100..C74A.ENG.1.0.pdf Swimming - Women's 400m Individual Medley Heats Summary (Official)
3. http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr:80/pdf/SW/SWW054301..C73A1.ENG.1.0.pdf Swimming - Women's 400m Individual Medley Final (Official)