Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle explained

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Event:	Women's 400 metre freestyle
Games:	2018 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	25 June
Venue:	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location:	Tarragona, Spain
Competitors:	15
Nations:	9
Win Value:	4:05.68
Gold:	Simona Quadarella
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Mireia Belmonte
Silver Nation:	ESP
Bronze:	Diana Durães
Bronze Nation:	POR
Prev:	2013
Next:	2022

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 25 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record		3:56.46	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7 August 2016
Mediterranean Games record		4:00.41	Pescara, Italy	27 June 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:32.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Mireia Belmonte		4:12.11	Q
2	1	4	Simona Quadarella		4:12.76	Q
3	2	3	Diana Durães		4:13.36	Q
4	1	6	Anja Crevar		4:14.24	Q
5	2	6	Melani Costa		4:15.89	Q
6	1	5	Linda Caponi		4:16.59	Q
7	1	3	Katja Fain		4:17.80	Q
8	2	4	Anja Klinar		4:18.78	Q,
9	1	2	Kalliopi Araouzou		4:18.81	Q
10	2	2	Tamila Holub		4:19.18
11	2	7	Beril Böcekler		4:20.44
12	1	1	Arianna Valloni		4:24.25
13	1	7	Afroditi Katsiara		4:24.70
14	2	8	Sara Lettoli		4:30.56
15	1	8	Gabriella Doueihy		4:32.77

Final

The final was held at 19:00.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Simona Quadarella		4:05.68
	4	Mireia Belmonte		4:05.87
	3	Diana Durães		4:09.49	NR
4	7	Linda Caponi		4:12.16
5	6	Anja Crevar		4:12.88
6	2	Melani Costa		4:15.13
7	1	Katja Fain		4:17.42
8	8	Kalliopi Araouzou		4:22.11

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018 Mediterranean Games – Swimming schedule. tarragona2018.cat. 23 June 2018.
2. https://tarragona2018-reports.s3.amazonaws.com/SWM/MED18_SWMW400MFR------------------------_C76_v1.pdf Final results