2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December 2016.

Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	6 December (heats and final)
Competitors	44 from 11 nations
Teams	11
Winning time	3:28.82
Medalists
Amanda Weir Kelsi Worrell Madison Kennedy Mallory Comerford Ali DeLoof Katie Drabot Katrina Konopka   United States   Erika Ferraioli Silvia Di Pietro Aglaia Pezzato Federica Pellegrini   Italy   Maud van der Meer Marrit Steenbergen Maaike de Waard Ranomi Kromowidjojo Kim Busch Robin Neumann   Netherlands

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Netherlands	3:26.53	Doha	5 December 2014

Heats

The heats were held at 13:26.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Canada	Sandrine Mainville (52.72) Alexia Zevnik (52.12) Michelle Williams (52.02) Taylor Ruck (52.63)	3:29.49	Q, NR
2	2	3	Italy	Erika Ferraioli (53.55) Silvia Di Pietro (52.61) Aglaia Pezzato (53.22) Federica Pellegrini (53.03)	3:32.41	Q
3	2	5	Netherlands	Maud van der Meer (53.75) Kim Busch (53.52) Robin Neumann (54.42) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (51.90)	3:33.59	Q
4	2	7	Australia	Carla Buchanan (53.89) Jemma Schlicht (54.37) Emily Seebohm (52.77) Brittany Elmslie (52.62)	3:33.65	Q
5	1	6	China	Zhu Menghui (53.21) Shen Duo (53.65) Sun Meichen (53.57) Tang Yuting (54.06)	3:34.49	Q
6	1	7	France	Anna Santamans (53.49) Marie Wattel (53.82) Mathilde Cini (54.47) Melanie Henique (53.06)	3:34.84	Q, NR
7	1	3	United States	Katrina Konopka (53.69) Katie Drabot (54.61) Madison Kennedy (53.24) Ali DeLoof (53.44)	3:34.98	Q
8	1	4	Japan	Rikako Ikee (52.69) Yui Yamane (53.79) Tomomi Aoki (53.45) Sayuki Ouchi (55.11)	3:35.04	Q
9	2	6	Denmark	Mie Nielsen (54.20) Julie Kepp Jensen (53.78) Sarah Bro (54.88) Emilie Beckmann (54.49)	3:37.35
10	1	5	Paraguay	Karen Riveros (57.28) Sofia Lopez (59.59) Nicole Rautemberg (1:00.08) Marie Jose Arrua (58.58)	3:55.97	NR
11	1	2	Macau	Tan Chi Yan (57.94) Lei On Kei (58.92) Choi Weng Tong (1:00.01) Long Chi Wai (59.10)	3:55.97
	2	2	Algeria			DNS

Final

The final was held at 20:12.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	1	United States	Amanda Weir (52.95) Kelsi Worrell (51.04) Madison Kennedy (52.84) Mallory Comerford (51.99)	3:28.82
	5	Italy	Erika Ferraioli (53.51) Silvia Di Pietro (52.06) Aglaia Pezzato (52.52) Federica Pellegrini (52.19)	3:30.28
	3	Netherlands	Maud van der Meer (53.48) Marrit Steenbergen (53.17) Maaike de Waard (53.09) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (51.36)	3:31.10
4	6	Australia	Brittany Elmslie (52.29) Carla Buchanan (53.17) Jemma Schlicht (53.75) Emily Seebohm (52.00)	3:31.21
5	8	Japan	Rikako Ikee (52.16) Yui Yamane (53.91) Sayuki Ouchi (54.21) Tomomi Aoki (53.81)	3:34.09
6	7	France	Anna Santamans (53.79) Marie Wattel (53.52) Mathilde Cini (54.06) Melanie Henique (53.76)	3:35.13
7	2	China	Zhu Menghui (53.77) Shen Duo (54.01) Sun Meichen (53.82) Tang Yuting (54.41)	3:36.01
	4	Canada	Sandrine Mainville Alexia Zevnik Penny Oleksiak Michelle Williams		DSQ