Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	29 July 2024 (Heats and Final)
Competitors	16 from 11 nations
Winning time	4:27.71
Medalists
Summer McIntosh   Canada Katie Grimes   United States Emma Weyant   United States
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The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 29 July 2024 in the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. ^[1]

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). ^[2] For this event, the OQT was 4:38.53. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. ^{[2] [3]} Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 4:39.92 for this event. ^[2] In total, 15 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, no athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT. ^[3]

Heats

Two heats took place on 29 July 2024, starting at 10:00. ^[a] The swimmers with the best eight times in the heats advanced to the final. ^[4]

Results ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	6	Emma Weyant	United States	4:36.27	Q
2	1	4	Katie Grimes	United States	4:37.24	Q
3	2	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	4:37.35	Q
4	1	5	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	4:37.62	Q
5	2	6	Mio Narita	Japan	4:37.84	Q
6	2	7	Ella Ramsay	Australia	4:39.04	Q
7	2	1	Ellen Walshe	Ireland	4:39.97	Q
8	1	7	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	4:40.40	Q
9	2	5	Jenna Forrester	Australia	4:40.55
10	2	3	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	4:41.64
11	1	1	Ella Jansen	Canada	4:42.06
12	2	8	Emma Carrasco	Spain	4:43.13
13	2	2	Ageha Tanigawa	Japan	4:43.18
14	1	3	Vivien Jackl	Hungary	4:44.47
15	1	2	Sara Franceschi	Italy	4:48.89
16	1	8	Anja Crevar	Serbia	4:49.16

Final

The final took place at 19:30 on 29 July. ^[6]

Results ^[7]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	3	Summer McIntosh	Canada	4:27.71
	5	Katie Grimes	United States	4:33.40
	4	Emma Weyant	United States	4:34.93
4	6	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	4:35.67
5	7	Ella Ramsay	Australia	4:38.01
6	2	Mio Narita	Japan	4:38.83
7	8	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	4:40.17
8	1	Ellen Walshe	Ireland	4:40.70

Statistics ^[8]

Name	100 metre split	200 metre split	300 metre split	Time	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Summer McIntosh	00:58.50	02:05.59	03:24.95	4:27.71	43.8
Katie Grimes	00:59.85	02:07.15	03:29.91	4:33.40	41.3
Emma Weyant	01:02.78	02:14.14	03:32.73	4:34.93	43.6
Freya Colbert	01:02.58	02:11.88	03:32.52	4:35.67	42.5
Ella Ramsay	01:02.79	02:14.66	03:32.96	4:38.01	40.4
Mio Narita	01:03.32	02:16.28	03:36.96	4:38.83	39.7
Katie Shanahan	01:03.38	02:12.75	03:33.85	4:40.17	37.6
Ellen Walshe	01:03.71	02:16.17	03:35.59	4:40.70	38.7

Notes

1. All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

References

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2. "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
3. Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
4. "Women's 400m Individual Medley - Heats Results". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
5. "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
6. "Women's 400m Individual Medley Final Results". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 30 December 2024.
7. "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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