2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	30 from 23 nations
Winning time	4:21.40
Medalists
Katinka Hosszú    Hungary   Melanie Margalis    United States   Fantine Lesaffre    France
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The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2018. ^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:18.94	Netanya	12 August 2017
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:19.86	Doha	3 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 11:05. ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:23.59	Q
2	2	3	Fantine Lesaffre	France	4:27.74	Q
3	2	6	Lara Grangeon	France	4:27.91	Q
4	2	5	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	4:28.02	Q
5	3	1	Melanie Margalis	United States	4:29.14	Q
6	2	4	Catalina Corro	Spain	4:31.02	Q
7	3	6	Sakiko Shimizu	Japan	4:31.12	Q
8	3	5	Miho Takahashi	Japan	4:31.13	Q
9	3	2	Abbey Harkin	Australia	4:33.23
10	2	2	Leah Smith	United States	4:34.93
11	3	3	Zhou Min	China	4:35.34
12	1	3	Florencia Perotti	Argentina	4:36.68
13	2	0	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	4:37.28
14	3	7	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:37.33
15	3	8	Jimena Pérez	Spain	4:37.42
16	2	7	Irina Krivonogova	Russia	4:37.54
17	2	1	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	4:38.49
18	3	0	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	4:39.31
19	1	6	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	4:39.76
20	2	9	Diana Durães	Portugal	4:39.81
21	3	9	Katja Fain	Slovenia	4:40.00
22	1	5	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	4:40.67
23	2	8	Anastasiia Sorokina	Russia	4:41.43
24	1	2	Ruby Matthews	New Zealand	4:43.91
25	1	7	Lam Hoi Kiu	Hong Kong	4:47.47
26	1	4	Tereza Horáková	Czech Republic	4:48.83
27	1	8	Hamida Rania Nefsi	Algeria	4:53.29
28	1	1	Wang Wan-chen	Chinese Taipei	4:54.25
29	1	0	Sára Niepelová	Slovakia	4:54.87
30	1	9	Daniela Alfaro	Costa Rica	5:01.36	NR

Final

The final was held at 19:48. ^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:21.40
	2	Melanie Margalis	United States	4:25.84
	5	Fantine Lesaffre	France	4:27.31	=NR
4	6	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	4:27.88
5	3	Lara Grangeon	France	4:29.56
6	1	Sakiko Shimizu	Japan	4:31.07
7	7	Catalina Corro	Spain	4:31.63
8	8	Miho Takahashi	Japan	4:35.62

References

1. "Competition Schedule". Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
2. "Heats results". Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
3. Final results