Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	18 June (heats and final)
Competitors	34 from 27 nations
Winning time	3:58.15
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 18 June 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Ariarne Titmus (AUS)	3:56.40	Adelaide, Australia	22 May 2022
Competition record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	3:58.34	Budapest, Hungary	23 July 2017

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
18 June	Final	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.15	CR

The heats were started at 10:11.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:59.79	Q
2	4	5	Summer McIntosh	Canada	4:03.19	Q
3	4	3	Lani Pallister	Australia	4:03.71	Q
4	4	2	Kiah Melverton	Australia	4:03.74	Q
5	4	6	Leah Smith	United States	4:04.43	Q
6	3	3	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	4:06.00	Q
7	3	5	Tang Muhan	China	4:06.29	Q
8	3	6	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	4:06.44	Q
9	3	2	Miyu Namba	Japan	4:08.07
10	3	4	Li Bingjie	China	4:08.25
11	3	7	Waka Kobori	Japan	4:08.55
12	4	7	Ajna Késely	Hungary	4:09.09
13	3	1	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	4:09.49
14	3	8	Freya Anderson	Great Britain	4:11.82
15	3	9	Katja Fain	Slovenia	4:12.05
16	4	0	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	4:12.09
17	4	8	Marlene Kahler	Austria	4:12.55
18	3	0	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	4:12.82
19	2	4	Han Da-kyung	South Korea	4:13.29
20	4	9	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	4:13.33
21	2	5	Helena Rosendahl Bach	Denmark	4:13.36
22	4	1	Bettina Fábián	Hungary	4:14.06
23	2	6	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	4:15.19
24	2	3	Paula Otero	Spain	4:18.90
25	2	2	Zhanet Angelova	Bulgaria	4:20.55
26	2	7	Kamonchanok Kwanmuang	Thailand	4:27.01
27	2	1	Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên	Vietnam	4:28.99
28	2	8	Jamila Boulakbech	Tunisia	4:32.54
29	2	9	Natalia Kuipers	U.S. Virgin Islands	4:33.54
30	1	4	Jehanara Nabi	Pakistan	4:37.93
31	1	2	Bianca Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	4:45.89
32	1	5	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	4:46.09
33	1	3	Arianna Lont	Sint Maarten	5:19.07
34	1	6	Keana Santos	Guam	5:28.52
—	2	0	Talita Te Flan	Ivory Coast	DNS

The final was held at 18:41.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.15	CR
	5	Summer McIntosh	Canada	3:59.39	NR
	2	Leah Smith	United States	4:02.08
4	3	Lani Pallister	Australia	4:02.16
5	8	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	4:03.47
6	7	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	4:04.73
7	6	Kiah Melverton	Australia	4:05.62
8	1	Tang Muhan	China	4:10.70