Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition at the 2017 World Championships will be held on 23 July 2017.

Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	23 July (heats and final)
Competitors	59 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Medalists
Mallory Comerford Kelsi Worrell Katie Ledecky Simone Manuel Lia Neal Olivia Smoliga   United States   Shayna Jack Bronte Campbell Brittany Elmslie Emma McKeon Emily Seebohm Madison Wilson   Australia   Kim Busch Femke Heemskerk Maud van der Meer Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands

Records

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

World record	Australia	3:30.65	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	6 August 2016
Competition record	Australia	3:31.48	Kazan, Russia	2 August 2015

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:39.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	4	United States	Lia Neal (53.94) Kelsi Worrell (53.27) Olivia Smoliga (53.67) Mallory Comerford (52.47)	3:33.35	Q
2	1	5	Netherlands	Maud van der Meer (54.72) Femke Heemskerk (52.72) Kim Busch (54.79) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.03)	3:34.26	Q
3	2	4	Australia	Emily Seebohm (54.32) Madison Wilson (53.94) Brittany Elmslie (53.61) Shayna Jack (53.31)	3:35.18	Q
4	1	1	Sweden	Michelle Coleman (53.21) Sarah Sjöström (52.19) Nathalie Lindborg (55.90) Louise Hansson (54.20)	3:35.50	Q
5	2	5	Canada	Sandrine Mainville (53.87) Michelle Toro (54.50) Rebecca Smith (53.93) Kayla Sanchez (53.54)	3:35.84	Q
6	2	6	China	Zhu Menghui (54.06) Ai Yanhan (54.71) Wu Yue (54.46) Zhang Yufei (53.79)	3:37.02	Q
7	1	3	Japan	Rikako Ikee (54.09) Tomomi Aoki (54.34) Yui Yamane (54.59) Chihiro Igarashi (54.44)	3:37.46	Q
8	1	6	Denmark	Signe Bro (54.85) Sarah Bro (55.60) Emilie Beckmann (55.55) Pernille Blume (52.29)	3:38.29	Q
9	2	2	Hungary	Flóra Molnár (54.93) Fanni Gyurinovics (55.16) Evelyn Verrasztó (54.73) Zsuzsanna Jakabos (54.08)	3:38.90
10	2	3	Italy	Silvia Di Pietro (54.80) Erika Ferraioli (54.91) Giorgia Biondani (55.47) Federica Pellegrini (53.90)	3:39.08
11	2	1	Israel	Andrea Murez (54.79) Zohar Shikler (56.75) Keren Siebner (56.03) Amit Ivry (56.78)	3:44.35
12	1	2	Hong Kong	Siobhán Haughey (53.99 NR) Claudia Lau (56.26) Ho Nam Wai (57.48) Sze Hang Yu (56.66)	3:44.39
13	2	7	South Africa	Erin Gallagher (55.94) Kate Beavon (59.98) Samantha Randle (1:00.68) Kaylene Corbett (1:01.23)	3:57.83
	1	7	Slovakia	DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:03.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	United States	Mallory Comerford (52.59 AM) Kelsi Worrell (53.16) Katie Ledecky (53.83) Simone Manuel (52.14)	3:31.72	AM
	3	Australia	Shayna Jack (53.75) Bronte Campbell (52.14) Brittany Elmslie (53.83) Emma McKeon (52.29)	3:32.01
	5	Netherlands	Kim Busch (54.05) Femke Heemskerk (52.84) Maud van der Meer (53.77) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (51.98)	3:32.64
4	2	Canada	Sandrine Mainville (53.77) Chantal Van Landeghem (52.97) Kayla Sanchez (54.16) Penny Oleksiak (52.98)	3:33.88
5	6	Sweden	Sarah Sjöström (51.71 WR) Michelle Coleman (52.68) Ida Lindborg (55.59) Louise Hansson (53.96)	3:33.94	NR
6	7	China	Zhu Menghui (53.79) Zhang Yufei (54.31) Wu Yue (54.96) Ai Yanhan (53.43)	3:36.49
7	1	Japan	Rikako Ikee (54.59) Tomomi Aoki (54.45) Yui Yamane (54.62) Chihiro Igarashi (54.58)	3:38.24
8	8	Denmark	Signe Bro (54.72) Sarah Bro (56.60) Emilie Beckmann (54.84) Pernille Blume (52.70)	3:38.86