Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	18 August
Competitors:	27
Nations:	16
Win Value:	4:31.03
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Mireia Belmonte
Silvernoc:	ESP
Bronze:	Aimee Willmott
Bronzenoc:	GBR

The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ye Shiwen	4:28.43	London	28 July 2012
European record	Katinka Hosszú	4:30.31	Rome	2 August 2009
Championship record	Hannah Miley	4:33.09	Budapest	9 August 2010

The heats were held at 10:25.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	4:31.53	Q
2	2	4	4:36.89	Q
3	3	7	4:38.82	Q
4	3	5	4:39.01	Q
5	3	6	4:41.15	Q
6	2	2	4:41.43	Q
7	2	5	4:41.80	Q
8	2	7	4:44.16	Q
9	3	1	4:44.23
10	3	2	4:44.61
11	3	3	4:44.75
12	2	1	4:44.87
13	2	6	4:45.32
14	3	8	4:46.47
15	2	8	4:47.59
16	2	3	4:48.81
17	1	4	4:50.16
18	3	9	4:51.58
19	3	0	4:51.83
20	1	5	4:52.47
21	2	0	4:52.83
22	2	9	4:55.41
23	1	6	4:56.45
24	1	7	5:07.27
25	1	2	5:13.70
26	1	1	5:29.90
—	1	3		DSQ

The final was held at 18:36.^[3]