2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay

The Women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2016.

Women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	54 from 12 nations
Teams	12
Winning time	1:35.00
Medalists
Michelle Williams Sandrine Mainville Taylor Ruck Penny Oleksiak Alexia Zevnik Sarah Darcel   Canada   Tamara van Vliet Ranomi Kromowidjojo Maaike de Waard Kim Busch Maud van der Meer   Netherlands   Silvia Di Pietro Erika Ferraioli Aglaia Pezzato Federica Pellegrini   Italy

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Netherlands	1:34.24	Doha	7 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	8	Denmark	Julie Kepp Jensen (24.76) Mie Nielsen (24.38) Emilie Beckmann (24.70) Jeanette Ottesen (23.54)	1:37.38	Q
2	2	6	Netherlands	Tamara van Vliet (24.44) Maaike de Waard (24.39) Kim Busch (24.16) Maud van der Meer (24.46)	1:37.45	Q
3	1	3	Canada	Sandrine Mainville (24.35) Alexia Zevnik (24.54) Taylor Ruck (24.12) Sarah Darcel (24.90)	1:37.91	Q, NR
4	1	6	France	Anna Santamans (24.39) Mélanie Henique (24.30) Marie Wattel (24.55) Mathilde Cini (24.73)	1:37.97	Q
5	2	3	United States	Katrina Konopka (24.76) Ali DeLoof (24.22) Marta Cieśla (25.05) Mallory Comerford (24.08)	1:38.11	Q
6	1	2	Italy	Silvia Di Pietro (24.64) Erika Ferraioli (24.15) Aglaia Pezzato (24.73) Federica Pellegrini (24.63)	1:38.15	Q
7	2	4	China	Tang Yuting (24.91) Sun Meichen (24.73) Shen Duo (24.95) Zhu Menghui (23.65)	1:38.24	Q, AS
8	1	7	Japan	Sayuki Ouchi (24.84) Yui Yamane (24.61) Tomomi Aoki (24.79) Asuka Kobayashi (25.30)	1:39.54	Q
9	1	1	Sweden	Nathalie Lindborg (25.54) Sara Junevik (25.43) Sophie Hansson (25.82) Ida Lindborg (25.32)	1:42.11
10	2	2	Singapore	Amanda Lim (25.66) Marina Chan (25.26) Hoong En Qi (26.14) Roanne Ho (26.14)	1:43.20	NR
11	1	4	Macau	Lei On Kei (26.34) Tan Chi Yan (26.35) Choi Weng Tong (27.38) Long Chi Wai (26.86)	1:46.93	NR
12	2	7	Paraguay	Karen Riveros (26.38) Maria Arrua (26.54) Nicole Rautemberg (27.41) Alma Castillo (27.50)	1:47.83	NR
	1	5	Australia			DNS
	2	1	Seychelles			DNS
	2	5	Algeria			DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:30.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	3	Canada	Michelle Williams (24.07) Sandrine Mainville (23.62) Taylor Ruck (23.77) Penny Oleksiak (23.54)	1:35.00	NR
	5	Netherlands	Tamara van Vliet (24.45) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (23.11) Maaike de Waard (24.09) Kim Busch (23.72)	1:35.37
	7	Italy	Silvia Di Pietro (23.92) Erika Ferraioli (23.52) Aglaia Pezzato (24.06) Federica Pellegrini (24.11)	1:35.61	NR
4	2	United States	Amanda Weir (24.37) Kelsi Worrell (23.57) Madison Kennedy (24.10) Katrina Konopka (23.82)	1:35.86
5	4	Denmark	Julie Kepp Jensen (24.82) Mie Nielsen (24.00) Emilie Beckmann (24.48) Jeanette Ottesen (23.68)	1:36.98
6	6	France	Mélanie Henique (24.64) Marie Wattel (24.50) Mathilde Cini (24.46) Anna Santamans (23.61)	1:37.21
7	1	China	Tang Yuting (25.21) Sun Meichen (24.35) Shen Duo (24.81) Zhu Menghui (23.59)	1:37.96	AS
8	8	Japan	Sayuki Ouchi (24.58) Yui Yamane (24.78) Tomomi Aoki (24.95) Asuka Kobayashi (25.48)	1:39.79