Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre freestyle
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22 May
Competitors:	40
Nations:	20
Win Value:	4:03.47
Gold:	Boglárka Kapás
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Jazmin Carlin
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Mireia Belmonte
Bronzenoc:	ESP
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22 May 2016.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katie Ledecky	3:58.37	Gold Coast	23 August 2014
European record	Federica Pellegrini	3:59.15	Rome	26 July 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	4:01.53	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

The heats were held at 09:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2	4:09.36	Q
2	5	5	4:09.60	Q
3	5	3	4:09.80	Q
4	5	6	4:10.00	Q
5	4	5	4:10.25	Q
6	4	4	4:10.78	Q
7	5	4	4:12.08	Q
8	5	1	4:12.26	Q
9	5	7	4:13.09
10	4	6	4:13.13
11	3	4	4:13.62
12	5	9	4:13.64
13	3	3	4:14.46
14	4	3	4:14.79
15	4	9	4:14.96
16	4	7	4:15.14
17	5	8	4:15.83
18	4	1	4:16.39
19	4	0	4:16.45
20	3	7	4:16.75
21	2	6	4:16.80
22	5	0	4:16.88
23	3	5	4:16.94
24	2	5	4:17.11
25	2	7	4:18.01
26	3	9	4:18.57
27	2	1	4:19.28
28	4	8	4:19.80
29	3	1	4:20.15
30	1	4	4:21.29
31	3	2	4:22.29
32	2	3	4:22.89
33	3	8	4:23.41
34	2	2	4:24.11
35	2	8	4:26.98
36	1	3	4:27.20
37	2	9	4:27.75
38	3	0	4:27.83
39	1	5	4:28.62
40	2	0	4:32.65
	2	4
	3	6
	5	2

The final was held at 16:57.^[4]