Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	28 July (heats and final)
Competitors	26 from 21 nations
Winning time	4:30.39
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 28 July 2019.^[1]^[2]

Records edit

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

World record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	4:26.36	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	6 August 2016
Competition record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	4:29.33	Budapest, Hungary	30 July 2017

The heats were held on 28 July at 10:30.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:35.40	Q
2	2	4	Yui Ohashi	Japan	4:37.23	Q
3	3	7	Ye Shiwen	China	4:37.66	Q
4	3	1	Emily Overholt	Canada	4:37.90	Q
5	3	3	Ally McHugh	United States	4:38.32	Q
6	3	5	Fantine Lesaffre	France	4:38.40	Q
7	2	6	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	4:38.59	Q
8	2	1	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:38.93	Q
9	3	6	Brooke Forde	United States	4:39.74
10	2	2	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	4:40.55
11	2	3	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	4:41.24
12	2	7	Anja Crevar	Serbia	4:41.59
13	3	2	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:42.16
14	2	0	Yu Yiting	China	4:42.52
15	3	0	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	4:43.03
16	2	5	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	4:43.27
17	2	8	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	4:46.01
18	3	9	Jimena Pérez	Spain	4:47.51
19	3	8	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	4:47.96
20	1	2	Katja Fain	Slovenia	4:48.24
21	2	9	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:48.93
22	1	5	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	4:53.99
23	1	6	Azzahra Permatahani	Indonesia	4:58.19
24	1	7	Maria Fe Muñoz	Peru	4:58.62
25	1	4	Aleksandra Knop	Poland	5:00.77
26	1	3	Claudia Gadea	Romania	5:01.11

The final was held on 28 July at 21:19.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.39
	3	Ye Shiwen	China	4:32.07
	5	Yui Ohashi	Japan	4:32.33
4	1	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	4:36.72
5	6	Emily Overholt	Canada	4:37.42
6	2	Ally McHugh	United States	4:38.34
7	8	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:39.15
8	7	Fantine Lesaffre	France	4:39.68