Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	13 August
Competitors:	18
Nations:	11
Win Value:	4:37.56
Gold:	Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas
Gold Nation:	HUN
Silver:	Zsuzsanna Jakabos
Silver Nation:	HUN
Bronze:	Freya Colbert
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2020
Next:	2024

The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 13 August 2022.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record			4:26.36		6 August 2016
Championship record			4:30.90		16 May 2016

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 10:02^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5			4:41.01	Q
2	1	3			4:41.30	Q
3	1	5			4:44.89	Q
4	2	4			4:45.07
5	2	3			4:45.55	Q
6	2	6			4:46.39	Q
7	1	2			4:46.72	Q
8	2	2			4:47.30	Q
9	1	6			4:48.03	Q
10	1	4			4:48.18
11	1	8			4:49.41
12	2	8			4:50.40
13	2	7			4:50.88
14	1	1			4:51.17
15	1	7			4:51.68
16	2	1			4:53.35
17	2	0			4:55.74
18	2	9			4:59.02
	1	0			Did not start

Final

The final was held at 19:28.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			4:37.56
	5			4:39.79
	2			4:40.06
4	6			4:40.91
5	7			4:42.40
6	3			4:44.24
7	1			4:49.38
7	8			4:49.38

Notes and References

1. https://www.roma2022.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Timing-SWIMMING-elite-1.5.pdf Schedule
2. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW400MIM------------HEAT--------_51A1%201.0.pdf Start list
3. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW400MIM------------HEAT--------_74A%201.0.pdf Heats results
4. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW400MIM------------FNL---------_73A2%201.0.pdf Final results