Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 31, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors	37 from 30 nations
Winning time	4:31.78
Medalists
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The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 31 with the heats the final.

Records[edit]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Stephanie Rice	Australia	4:29.45	Beijing	August 10, 2008
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.31	Rome	August 2, 2009

36 swimmers participated in 5 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	4:34.95	Q
2	4	5	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	4:36.36	Q
3	3	5	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	4:36.78	Q
4	5	8	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:36.96	Q, NR
5	5	2	Stephanie Rice	Australia	4:37.32	Q
6	5	4	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:37.39	Q
7	5	3	Li Xuanxu	China	4:37.61	Q
8	4	4	Ye Shiwen	China	4:38.18	Q
9	4	7	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	4:38.82
10	5	6	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:38.84
11	3	1	Kathryn Meaklim	South Africa	4:41.07
12	4	6	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	4:41.23
13	4	8	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	4:41.33	NR
14	4	3	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	4:42.52
15	5	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:42.96
16	5	1	Stina Gardell	Sweden	4:44.53
17	3	8	Stephanie Horner	Canada	4:44.85
18	4	1	Alessia Polieri	Italy	4:45.26
19	3	3	Samantha Hamill	Australia	4:45.32
20	5	7	Yana Martynova	Russia	4:45.53
21	3	6	Lara Grangeon	France	4:47.41
22	2	4	Georgina Bardach	Argentina	4:48.09
23	2	5	Ganna Dzerkal	Ukraine	4:48.17
24	3	2	Stephanie Proud	Great Britain	4:48.31
25	4	2	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	4:48.40
26	2	2	Kim Hye-Rim	South Korea	4:48.97
27	2	6	Charetzeni Escobar	Mexico	4:49.95	=NR
28	2	7	Nadia Vieira	Portugal	4:51.65
29	2	1	Sarra Lajnef	Tunisia	4:51.89
30	2	3	Marina Ribi	Switzerland	4:52.49
31	2	8	Samantha Arevalo	Ecuador	4:58.87
32	1	4	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	5:03.07
33	1	5	Maria Coy	Guatemala	5:11.28
34	1	3	Ana Maria Castellanos	Honduras	5:16.41
35	1	6	Daniella van den Berg	Aruba	5:18.27
36	1	2	Anum Bandey	Pakistan	5:37.11	NR
–	3	7	Gráinne Murphy	Ireland		DNS

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	4:31.78
	7	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:34.22
	2	Stephanie Rice	Australia	4:34.23
4	5	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	4:34.94
5	8	Ye Shiwen	China	4:35.15
6	1	Li Xuanxu	China	4:35.78
7	6	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:38.04
8	3	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	4:38.80