Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

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Women's 4x200m Free Relay
at the 2001 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates24 July 2001 (prelims & finals)
Medalists
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2003  

The Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan. Preliminary [1] heats swam in the morning session, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final that evening. [2] [3]

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In the final, the Australian team originally finished first, with the United States second, and Great Britain taking the bronze. However, soon after finishing, the American team was disqualified for an early changeover, and following that, the Australians were also disqualified for entering the pool before all other teams had finished. [4] Both appealed their disqualifications, with America initially being reinstated due to video evidence. However, the original decisions were eventually upheld [5] meaning that Great Britain took the gold medal, Germany the silver, and Japan the bronze.

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

Results

Final

[6]

RankNationSwimmersTimeNotes
1Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain Nicola Jackson (2:00.05), Janine Belton (2:00.64),
Karen Legg (1:58.95), Karen Pickering (1:59.05)
7:58.69
2Flag of Germany.svg Germany Silvia Szalai (2:00.39), Sara Harstick (1:59.48),
Hannah Stockbauer (1:59.06), Meike Freitag (2:02.42)
8:01.35
3Flag of Japan.svg Japan Maki Mita (2:00.38), Tomoko Hagiwara (1:59.25),
Tomoko Nagai (2:00.98), Eri Yamanoi (2:02.36)
8:02.97
4Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Marianne Limpert (2:01.13), Jessica Deglau (2:00.65),
Sophie Simard (2:02.47), Laura Nicholls (2:02.17)
8:06.42
5Flag of Spain.svg Spain Laura Roca (2:01.77), Tatiana Rouba (2:01.75),
Lidia Elizalde (2:01.91), Paula Carballido (2:01.12)
8:06.55
6Flag of Italy.svg Italy Cecilia Vianini (2:01.59), Cristina Chiuso (2:02.27),
Sara Parise (2:01.76), Luisa Striani (2:02.94)
8:08.56
7Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Elka Graham (1:58.54), Linda MacKenzie (2:00.15),
Petria Thomas (1:59.15), Giaan Rooney (1:58.16)
DQ7:56.00
8Flag of the United States.svg USA Natalie Coughlin (1:59.94), Cristina Teuscher (1:58.54),
Julie Hardt 1:59.70, Diana Munz (1:58.35)
DQ7:56.53

Preliminaries

RankNationSwimmersTimeNotes
1Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Nicola Jackson (2:00.58), Janine Belton (2:00.99),
Karen Legg (1:59.15), Karen Pickering (2:02.24)
8:02.96q
2Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Petria Thomas (2:00.67), Kasey Giteau (2:02.90)
Linda MacKenzie (1:59.79), Lori Munz (2:00.52)
8:03.88q
3Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Silvia Szalai (1:59.74), Alessa Ries (2:03.41),
Sara Harstick (1:59.60), Meike Freitag (2:02.08)
8:04.83q
4Flag of the United States.svg  United States Shelly Ripple (2:01.47), Coleen Lanne (2:03.24)
Julie Hardt (1:59.25), Maritza Correia (2:01.06)
8:05.02q
5Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Tomoko Nagai (2:01.90), Maki Mita (2:00.00)
Tomoko Hagiwara (2:01.18), Eri Yamanoi (2:02.68)
8:05.76q
6Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Sara Parise (2:02.65), Cristina Chiuso (2:01.95),
Luisa Striani (2:01.29), Cecilia Vianini (2:00.34)
8:06.23q
7Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Marianne Limpert (2:01.28), Jessica Deglau (2:00.51),
Sophie Simard (2:02.34), Laura Nicholls (2:02.35)
8:06.48q
8Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Laura Roca (2:00.77), Tatiana Rouba (2:03.10),
Lidia Elizalde (2:02.14), Paula Carballido (2:01.98)
8:07.99q
9Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Zhu Yingwen (2:01.96), Chen Hua (2:03.24)
Xu Yanwei (2:02.22), Yang Yu (2:00.95)
8:08.37
10Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Olga Bogoslovenko (2:05.14), Irina Oufimtseva (2:00.62)
Alexandra Malanina (2:03.70), Nadezhda Chemezova (2:03.22)
8:12.68
11Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Camelia Potec (2:00.36), Simona Păduraru (2:02.06)
Florina Herea (2:05.25), Valentina Brat (2:12.89)
8:20.56
12Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei Lin Chi-Chan (2:06.53), Kuan Chia-Hsien (2:09.82)
Yang Chin-Kuei (2:14.56), Sung Yi-Chien (2:12.03)
8:42.94
13Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore Christel Bouvron (2:08.03), Nicolette Teo (2:13.45)
Rebecca Heng (2:16.00), U-nice Chan (2:10.50)
8:47.98

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