2023 World Para Swimming Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The women's 400m freestyle events at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships will be held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre between 31 July and 6 August.

Medalists edit

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
S6	Jiang Yuyan China	Maisie Summers-Newton Great Britain	Nora Meister Switzerland
S7 details	Morgan Stickney United States	Ahalya Lettenberger United States	Sabrina Duchesne Canada
S8 details	Xenia Palazzo Italy	Nahia Zudaire Spain	Jeronimo de Araujo Brazil
S9	Lakeisha Patterson Australia	Emma Mecic Croatia	Toni Shaw Great Britain
S10	Bianka Pap Hungary	Oliwia Jablonska Poland	Faye Rogers Great Britain
S11	Liesette Bruinsma Netherlands	Cai Liwen China	McClain Hermes United States
S13	Carlotta Gilli Italy	Olivia Chambers United States	Anna Stetsenko Ukraine

Five swimmers entered this event. A straight final was held on the evening of 1 August.^[1]

Entering the event, the applicable records were the following

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Jacqueline Freney (AUS)	4:59.02
Championship record	Mallory Weggemann (USA)	5:04.87

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Morgan Stickney	United States	4:54.28	WR CR
	Ahalya Lettenberger	United States	5:22.27
	Sabrina Duchesne	Canada	5:31.17
4	Agnes Kramer	Sweden	6:03.69
5	Nicola St Clair Maitland	Sweden	6:17.26

11 swimmers entered the event. Heats and final were both held in Monday 31 July.^[2]

Entering the event, the applicable records were the following

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Lakeisha Patterson (AUS)	4:40.33
Championship record	Jessica Long (USA)	4:43.76

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Nahia Zudaire	Spain	5:10.90	Q
2	1	5	Ella Jones	Australia	5:12.55	Q
3	2	6	Vendula Duskova	Czech Republic	5:16.48	Q
4	2	5	Jeronimo De Araujo	Brazil	5:16.59	Q
5	1	4	Xenia Palazzo	Italy	5:19.68	Q
6	2	3	Ruvalcaba Nunez	Mexico	5:24.81	Q
7	1	3	Abi Tripp	Canada	5:29.80	Q
8	1	6	Paula Novina	Croatia	5:31.12	Q
9	1	2	Hui Zhu	China	5:33.49
10	2	2	Ana Castro	Portugal	5:47.08
11	2	7	Alexandra Borska	Czech Republic	5:53.14

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result
	2	Xenia Palazzo	Italy	5:01.46
	4	Nahia Zudaire	Spain	5:05.91
	6	Jeronimo De Araujo	Brazil	5:08.94
4	5	Ella Jones	Australia	5:12.76
5	3	Vendula Duskova	Czech Republic	5:16.54
6	7	Ruvalcaba Nunez	Mexico	5:18.88
8	8	Paula Novina	Croatia	5:25.98
7	1	Abi Tripp	Canada	5.29.99

14 swimmers entered the event. Heats and final were both held in 2 August.^[4]

Entering the event, the applicable records were the following

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Aurelie Rivard (CAN)	4:24.08
Championship record	Oliwia Jablonska (POL)	4:29.65

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	5	Aurelie Rivard	Canada	4:39.77	Q
2	2	4	Bianka Pap	Hungary	4:41.32	Q
3	1	4	Oliwia Jablonska	Poland	4:44.58	Q
4	1	5	Faye Rogers	Great Britain	4:46.77	Q
5	2	3	Anaelle Roulet	France	4:48.11	Q
6	2	6	Elodie Lorandi	France	4:48.57	Q
7	1	3	Poppy Wilson	Australia	4:54.94	Q
8	2	2	Hannah Nelson	United States	4:56.06	Q
9	1	2	Gabriella Smith	New Zealand	4:58.24	R1
10	1	6	Maria Paula Barrera Zapata	Colombia	4:58.27
11	2	7	Csenge Hotz	Hungary	5:00.42
12	1	1	Audrey Kim	United States	5:03.10
13	1	7	Katie Cosgriffe	Canada	5:10.01
14	2	1	Lili-Fox Mason	New Zealand	5:19.61

Aurélie Rivard withdrew from the final and was replaced by Gabriella Smith

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result
	Bianka Pap	Hungary	4:33.43
	Oliwia Jablonska	Poland	4:38.57
	Faye Rogers	Great Britain	4:41.06
4	Anaelle Roulet	France	4:45.03
5	Elodie Lorandi	France	4:50.61
6	Poppy Wilson	Australia	4:53.42
7	Hannah Nelson	United States	4:54.67
8	Gabriella Smith	New Zealand	5:01.00