Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	3 August
Competitors:	21
Nations:	14
Win Value:	4:34.17
Gold:	Fantine Lesaffre
Gold Nation:	FRA
Silver:	Ilaria Cusinato
Silver Nation:	ITA
Bronze:	Hannah Miley
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2016
Next:	2020

The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August 2018.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Katinka Hosszú		4:26.36	Rio de Janeiro	6 August 2016
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú		4:30.90	London	16 May 2016

The heats were started at 09:30.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	3	4:36.17	Q
2	2	4	4:38.28	Q
3	3	4	4:39.02	Q
4	2	6	4:39.26	Q
5	3	5	4:39.52	Q
6	2	5	4:40.69	Q
7	2	2	4:40.99	Q
8	2	3	4:42.06	Q
9	3	7	4:42.07
10	3	2	4:43.80
11	3	1	4:44.22
12	2	1	4:46.87
13	3	6	4:47.63
14	2	7	4:48.32
15	2	8	4:49.76
16	3	8	4:51.65
17	1	4	4:56.41
18	1	3	4:58.42
19	3	0	4:58.73
20	1	5	5:02.59
21	2	0	5:05.48

The final was held at 17:00.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
	4	Fantine Lesaffre	4:34.17
	3	Ilaria Cusinato	4:35.05
	2	Hannah Miley	4:35.34
4	5	Aimee Willmott	4:35.77
5	6	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	4:38.48
6	7	Catalina Corró	4:38.83
7	8	Carlotta Toni	4:40.18
8	1	Anja Crevar	4:41.40