2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay ; at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates	12 December (heats and final)
Winning time	7:39.25
Medalists
	United States; Megan Romano, Chelsea Chenault, Shannon Vreeland, Allison Schmitt, Jasmine Tosky*
	Russia; Veronika Popova, Elena Sokolova, Daria Belyakina, Ksenia Yuskova
	China; Qiu Yuhan, Pang Jiaying, Guo Junjun, Tang Yi, Wang Fei; Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.
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The women's 4x200 metre freestyle relay event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 12 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records edit

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

	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	China	Chen Qian (1:54.73) Tang Yi (1:53.54) Liu Jing (1:53.59) Zhu Qianwei (1:54.08)	7:35.94	Dubai	15 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

12 teams participated in 2 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	4	United States	Jasmine Tosky (1:58.10) Shannon Vreeland (1:55.75) Chelsea Chenault (1:54.73) Allison Schmitt (1:56.78)	7:45.36	Q
2	2	5	Russia	Daria Belyakina (1:57.67) Ksenia Yuskova (1:57.64) Elena Sokolova (1:55.87) Veronika Popova (1:56.34)	7:47.52	Q, NR
3	1	7	Italy	Alice Mizzau (1:58.99) Diletta Carli (1:57.85) Federica Pellegrini (1:54.75) Alice Nesti (1:56.36)	7:47.95	Q
4	1	6	China	Qiu Yuhan (1:57.03) Wang Fei (1:58.40) Guo Junjun (1:56.13) Pang Jiaying (1:56.72)	7:48.28	Q
5	1	4	Japan	Haruka Ueda (1:56.21) Miki Uchida (1:58.37) Asami Chida (1:57.90) Emu Higuchi (1:58.33)	7:50.81	Q
6	2	2	Denmark	Pernille Blume (1:58.47) Mie Nielsen (1:55.58) Katrine Holm Sørensen (2:00.09) Lotte Friis (1:57.19)	7:51.33	Q, NR
7	1	2	Great Britain	Sophie Allen (1:58.24) Ellie Faulkner (1:59.95) Jazmin Carlin (1:56.91) Rebecca Turner (1:56.74)	7:51.84	Q
8	2	7	Hungary	Eszter Dara (1:59.65) Evelyn Verrasztó (1:56.32) Zsuzsanna Jakabos (1:59.70) Katinka Hosszú (1:57.46)	7:53.13	Q
9	1	3	South Africa	Karin Prinsloo (1:58.41) Michelle Weber (2:02.84) Kyna Pereira (2:00.99) Jessica Pengelly (2:00.25)	8:02.49	AF
10	2	6	Canada	Katerine Savard (1:58.79) Chantal van Landeghem (2:03.34) Noemie It-Ting Thomas (2:04.42) Heather MacLean (1:57.91)	7:58.74
11	1	5	Peru	Daniela Miyahara (2:05.78) Andrea Cedrón (2:07.91) Erika García-Naranjo (2:10.25) Oriele Espinoza (2:07.94)	8:31.88	NR
12	2	3	Macau	Vong Erica Man Wai (2:00.33) Lei On Kei (2:03.15) Kuan Weng I (1:57.84) Tan Chi Yan (2:00.98)	8:02.30	NR
	2	1	Venezuela		DNS

The final was held at 20:41.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	United States	Megan Romano (1:56.03) Chelsea Chenault (1:54.78) Shannon Vreeland (1:55.43) Allison Schmitt (1:53.01)	7:39.25
	5	Russia	Veronika Popova (1:55.36) Elena Sokolova (1:55.61) Daria Belyakina (1:55.73) Ksenia Yuskova (1:56.07)	7:42.77	NR
	6	China	Qiu Yuhan (1:57.30) Pang Jiaying (1:56.72) Guo Junjun (1:55.91) Tang Yi (1:53.33)	7:43.26
4	8	Hungary	Evelyn Verrasztó (1:56.96) Eszter Dara (1:58.60) Zsuzsanna Jakabos (1:54.48) Katinka Hosszú (1:54.66)	7:44.70	NR
5	1	Great Britain	Rebecca Turner (1:56.57) Sophie Allen (1:58.14) Jazmin Carlin (1:56.40) Hannah Miley (1:54.74)	7:45.85
6	3	Italy	Alice Mizzau (1:57.23) Alice Nesti (1:56.76) Diletta Carli (1:57.71) Federica Pellegrini (1:54.31)	7:46.01	NR
7	7	Denmark	Lotte Friis (1:55.93) Pernille Blume (1:56.81) Katrine Holm Sørensen (2:00.57) Mie Nielsen (1:53.73)	7:47.04	NR
8	2	Japan	Haruka Ueda (1:56.38) Miki Uchida (1:58.35) Asami Chida (1:58.00) Emu Higuchi (1:59.23)	7:51.96