Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Championship:	2015 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	9 August (heats and final)
Competitors:	35
Nations:	27
Win Value:	4:30.39
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Maya DiRado
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Emily Overholt
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	2013
Next:	2017

The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 9 August with the heats and the final.^[1]

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:00.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4			4:32.78	Q
2	4	7			4:35.60	Q, NR
3	4	8			4:35.86	Q
4	3	4			4:36.11	Q
4	3	3			4:36.11	Q
6	4	6			4:36.16	Q
7	4	3			4:36.82	Q
8	3	2			4:38.20	Q
9	3	0			4:38.39
10	3	8			4:38.78	NR
11	4	2			4:38.94
12	4	5			4:38.96
13	3	6			4:39.05
14	3	1			4:40.60
15	3	5			4:42.96
16	2	3			4:43.06
17	2	5			4:43.51
18	2	4			4:43.83
19	3	7			4:44.40
20	4	0			4:44.51
21	4	1			4:44.93
22	2	2			4:45.50
23	3	9			4:46.06
24	2	8			4:47.85
25	4	9			4:48.65
26	2	1			4:50.04
27	2	6			4:50.36
28	2	0			4:51.59
29	2	9			4:51.79
30	1	4			4:53.15
31	2	7			4:53.47
32	1	5			4:56.39
33	1	6			5:05.55
34	1	3			5:05.62
35	1	2			5:17.71

Final

The final was held at 18:49.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			4:30.39
	2			4:31.71
	3			4:32.52	NR
4	6			4:34.79
5	5			4:36.73
6	7			4:37.19
7	1			4:38.75
8	8			4:40.98

Notes and References

1. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001042500FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001042500FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001042502FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final results