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

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	16 May
Competitors:	25
Nations:	14
Win Value:	4:30.90
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Hannah Miley
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Zsuzsanna Jakabos
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 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	Ye Shiwen	4:28.43	London	28 July 2012
European record	Katinka Hosszú	4:29.89	Marseille	4 March 2016
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	4:31.03	Berlin	18 August 2014

The heats were held at 10:51.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	4:30.97	Q, CR
2	3	5	4:37.49	Q
3	2	4	4:38.91	Q
4	2	3	4:39.10	Q
5	2	7	4:39.60	Q
6	3	6	4:41.31	Q
7	2	5	4:41.63	Q
8	2	6	4:41.87	Q
9	3	3	4:42.92
10	3	2	4:43.42
11	3	7	4:44.28
12	2	2	4:44.62
13	1	6	4:44.73
14	2	8	4:45.88
15	3	8	4:46.45
16	3	1	4:48.01
17	2	1	4:48.76
18	1	4	4:50.71
19	3	0	4:50.86
20	2	0	4:52.19
21	1	5	4:53.89
22	3	9	4:55.71
23	1	3	4:56.16
24	2	9	4:57.95
25	1	2	5:15.48

The final was held at 18:35.^[4]