Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	23 July (heats and final)
Competitors	41 from 31 nations
Winning time	3:55.38 WR
Medalists
Ariarne Titmus    Australia   Katie Ledecky    United States   Erika Fairweather    New Zealand
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The women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 23 July 2023. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. ^[4]

World record	Summer McIntosh  (CAN)	3:56.08	Toronto, Canada	28 March 2023
Competition record	Katie Ledecky  (USA)	3:58.15	Budapest, Hungary	18 June 2022

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
23 July	Final	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	3:55.38	WR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 11:56. ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Katie Ledecky	United States	4:00.80	Q
2	4	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	4:01.39	Q
3	5	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	4:01.72	Q
4	4	6	Isabel Gose	Germany	4:03.02	Q, NR
5	4	5	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	4:03.07	Q
6	4	3	Lani Pallister	Australia	4:03.49	Q
7	5	6	Bella Sims	United States	4:04.25	Q
8	5	3	Li Bingjie	China	4:04.98	Q
9	5	1	Ajna Késely	Hungary	4:07.08
10	4	1	Waka Kobori	Japan	4:07.48
11	4	7	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	4:07.99
12	4	8	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	4:08.67
13	5	8	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	4:09.02
14	4	9	Anastasiya Kirpichnikova	France	4:09.43
15	3	5	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	4:10.09
16	5	2	Miyu Namba	Japan	4:10.23
17	4	2	Ma Yonghui	China	4:10.64
18	3	1	Han Da-kyung	South Korea	4:11.08
19	3	3	Deniz Ertan	Turkey	4:11.29
20	5	7	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	4:11.33
21	3	2	Imani de Jong	Netherlands	4:12.03
22	5	0	Ella Jansen	Canada	4:12.77
23	5	9	Bettina Fábián	Hungary	4:12.83
24	3	9	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	4:13.10
25	3	0	Marlene Kahler	Austria	4:13.13
26	4	0	Merve Tuncel	Turkey	4:13.34
27	3	8	Daria Golovaty	Israel	4:14.33
28	3	7	Paula Otero	Spain	4:14.63
29	2	4	María Yegres	Venezuela	4:15.79
30	3	6	Cyrielle Duhamel	France	4:16.97
31	3	4	Katja Fain	Slovenia	4:18.05
32	2	6	Iman Avdić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:20.04
33	2	5	Batbayaryn Enkhkhüslen	Mongolia	4:21.39
34	2	3	Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên	Vietnam	4:23.21
35	2	2	Eva Petrovska	North Macedonia	4:24.92
36	2	1	Harper Barrowman	Cayman Islands	4:26.88
37	2	8	Danielle Treasure	Barbados	4:32.39
38	2	7	Sasha Gatt	Malta	4:35.45
39	1	3	Anna Nikishkina	Kyrgyzstan	4:36.12
40	1	4	Natalia Kuipers	U.S. Virgin Islands	4:38.00
41	1	5	Amaya Bollinger	Guam	5:16.50

Final

The final was started at 20:32. ^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	3:55.38	WR
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.73
	2	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	3:59.59	NR
4	3	Summer McIntosh	Canada	3:59.94
5	8	Li Bingjie	China	4:01.65
6	7	Lani Pallister	Australia	4:05.17
7	6	Isabel Gose	Germany	4:05.27
8	1	Bella Sims	United States	4:05.37

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
2. Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
3. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.
4. "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
5. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 23 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 November 2023.
6. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 23 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.