Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
	Victory Ceremony
Dates	9 August (heats and final)
Competitors	35 from 27 nations
Winning time	4:30.39
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 9 August with the heats and the final.^[1]

Records edit

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

World record	Ye Shiwen (CHN)	4:28.43	London, Great Britain	28 July 2012
Competition record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	4:30.31	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009

The heats were held at 10:00.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:32.78	Q
2	4	7	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:35.60	Q, NR
3	4	8	Emily Overholt	Canada	4:35.86	Q
4	3	4	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:36.11	Q
4	3	3	Maya DiRado	United States	4:36.11	Q
6	4	6	Sakiko Shimizu	Japan	4:36.16	Q
7	4	3	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	4:36.82	Q
8	3	2	Lara Grangeon	France	4:38.20	Q
9	3	0	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	4:38.39
10	3	8	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	4:38.78	NR
11	4	2	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:38.94
12	4	5	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	4:38.96
13	3	6	Keryn McMaster	Australia	4:39.05
14	3	1	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	4:40.60
15	3	5	Ye Shiwen	China	4:42.96
16	2	3	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	4:43.06
17	2	5	Franziska Hentke	Germany	4:43.51
18	2	4	Nam Yoo-sun	South Korea	4:43.83
19	3	7	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	4:44.40
20	4	0	Beatriz Gómez Cortés	Spain	4:44.51
21	4	1	Tessa Wallace	Australia	4:44.93
22	2	2	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	4:45.50
23	3	9	Fantine Lesaffre	France	4:46.06
24	2	8	Ranohon Amanova	Uzbekistan	4:47.85
25	4	9	Stina Gardell	Sweden	4:48.65
26	2	1	Anja Crevar	Serbia	4:50.04
27	2	6	Zhou Min	China	4:50.36
28	2	0	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	4:51.59
29	2	9	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	4:51.79
30	1	4	Phiangkhwan Pawapotako	Thailand	4:53.15
31	2	7	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	4:53.47
32	1	5	Gizem Bozkurt	Turkey	4:56.39
33	1	6	Maria Far Nuñez	Panama	5:05.55
34	1	3	Georgina González	Mexico	5:05.62
35	1	2	Rebeca Quinteros	El Salvador	5:17.71

The final was held at 18:49.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.39
	2	Maya DiRado	United States	4:31.71
	3	Emily Overholt	Canada	4:32.52	NR
4	6	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:34.79
5	5	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:36.73
6	7	Sakiko Shimizu	Japan	4:37.19
7	1	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	4:38.75
8	8	Lara Grangeon	France	4:40.98