Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

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The heats and finals for the women's 400 m individual medley race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley is: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record	Stephanie Rice (AUS)	4:29.45	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
Championship record	Katie Hoff (USA)	4:32.89	Melbourne, Australia	1 April 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
2 August	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.31	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Stephanie Rice	Australia	4:34.62	6	4
2	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	4:34.80	6	5
3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:35.15	5	5
4	Tanya Hunks	Canada	4:35.84	5	8	NR
4	Julia Smit	United States	4:35.84	6	3
6	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:36.27	4	4
7	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	4:36.42	5	4
8	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:37.47	6	6
9	Samantha Hamill	Australia	4:37.84	6	1
10	Julie Hjorth-Hansen	Denmark	4:38.20	5	1	NR
11	Alessia Filippi	Italy	4:39.58	4	5
12	Yana Martynova	Russia	4:39.83	5	3
13	Keri-anne Payne	Great Britain	4:40.92	5	6
14	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	4:41.00	4	6
15	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	4:41.20	5	0
16	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	4:41.55	5	2
17	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:41.90	3	2
18	Stina Gardell	Sweden	4:42.71	4	9	NR
19	Anastasia Ivanenko	Russia	4:42.96	6	8
20	Gráinne Murphy	Ireland	4:43.20	3	4
21	Francesca Segat	Italy	4:43.77	4	8
22	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	4:43.87	4	2
23	Karolina Szczepaniak	Poland	4:45.13	3	5
24	Jessica Pengelly	South Africa	4:46.31	4	1
25	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	4:46.57	6	9
26	Lara Grangeon	France	4:46.93	5	7
27	Maiko Fujino	Japan	4:47.11	4	7
28	Zheng Rongrong	China	4:48.87	5	9
29	Jordis Steinegger	Austria	4:49.74	6	0
30	Marina Ribi	Switzerland	4:50.53	3	0	NR
31	Katheryn Meaklim	South Africa	4:51.09	4	3
32	Nuala Murphy	Ireland	4:52.12	3	1
33	Paula Zukowska	Poland	4:53.52	3	7
34	Nina Dittrich	Austria	4:55.10	1	3
35	Nika Karlina Petric	Slovenia	4:58.90	3	6
36	Maroua Mathlouthi	Tunisia	5:00.95	3	9
37	Koh Hui Yu	Singapore	5:02.13	2	7
38	Chen Ting	Hong Kong	5:02.97	2	3
39	Erika Stewart	Colombia	5:04.24	1	5
40	Maria Coy	Guatemala	5:06.74	2	5
41	Ting Sheng-Yo	Chinese Taipei	5:07.73	2	8
42	Koh Ting Ting	Singapore	5:09.52	2	6
43	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	5:13.71	2	2
44	Pooja Raghava Alva	India	5:28.37	2	0
45	Stephanie Rasoamanana	Madagascar	5:56.61	2	9
–	Sakina Ghulam	Pakistan	DNS	1	4
–	Sara Nordenstam	Norway	DNS	6	7
–	Samantha Arevalo	Ecuador	DQ	2	1
–	Tetyana Khala	Ukraine	DQ	2	4
–	Louise Mai Jansen	Denmark	DQ	3	3
–	Anna-Liisa Põld	Estonia	DQ	3	8
–	Liu Jing	China	DQ	4	0
–	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	DQ	6	2

Finals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.31	3	CR, ER
	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	4:32.12	1
	Stephanie Rice	Australia	4:32.29	4
4	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:32.72	7
5	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	4:34.90	5
6	Julia Smit	United States	4:35.33	2
7	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:37.85	8
8	Tanya Hunks	Canada	4:38.15	6

External links

• Heats Results
• Finals Results