Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The Women's 400 m Freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships was held on 26 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

World record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	4:00.41	Pescara, Italy	27 June 2009
Championship record	Laure Manaudou (FRA)	4:02.61	Melbourne, Australia	25 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Heat 6	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.96	CR
26 July	Final	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	3:59.15	WR

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.96	6	4	CR
2	Allison Schmitt	United States	4:02.80	6	3
3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	4:03.48	5	4
4	Coralie Balmy	France	4:04.12	5	5
5	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:04.25	6	5
6	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	France	4:05.25	5	6
7	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:05.40	4	3	NR
8	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	4:05.70	4	4
9	Ellen Fullerton	Australia	4:08.31	4	2
10	Erika Villaécija García	Spain	4:08.77	5	2
11	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	4:09.30	6	7	NR
12	Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli	Argentina	4:10.16	4	1	SA
13	Chloe Sutton	United States	4:10.88	6	6
14	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	4:11.35	6	1
15	Wendy Trott	South Africa	4:11.45	6	2
16	Maiko Fujino	Japan	4:11.52	6	0
17	Flavia Zoccari	Italy	4:11.58	5	7
18	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	4:11.79	5	0	NR
19	Nuala Murphy	Ireland	4:13.51	3	3
20	Savannah King	Canada	4:13.58	5	8
21	Patricia Castañeda	Mexico	4:13.59	4	8
22	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	4:13.70	5	9	NR
23	Ren Junni	China	4:14.07	4	6
24	Elena Sokolova	Russia	4:14.38	5	3
25	Susana Escobar	Mexico	4:14.70	5	1
26	Yanel Pinto	Venezuela	4:14.74	3	6
27	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:15.62	4	5
28	Natsumi Iwashita	Japan	4:15.95	4	7
29	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	4:15.96	6	9
30	Lynette Lim	Singapore	4:16.35	3	7
31	Paula Żukowska	Poland	4:16.64	3	5
32	Ionela Cozma	Romania	4:16.79	2	2
33	Niamh O'Sullivan	Ireland	4:16.80	3	4
34	Nina Cesar	Slovenia	4:17.22	4	0
35	Cho Youn Soo	South Korea	4:17.59	3	1
36	Nika Karlina Petric	Slovenia	4:18.14	6	8
37	Heysi Villareal	Cuba	4:20.94	3	0
38	Erica Cirila Totten	Philippines	4:21.32	2	4
39	Pamela Benitez	El Salvador	4:21.58	3	9
40	Jeong Darae	South Korea	4:22.99	2	5
41	Kristina Bernice Lennox	Puerto Rico	4:23.26	3	8
42	Khoo Cai Lin	Malaysia	4:24.48	4	9
43	Kimberley Eeson	Zimbabwe	4:27.89	3	2
44	Andrea Cedron	Peru	4:29.80	2	3
45	Kirsten Lapham	Zimbabwe	4:33.57	1	3
46	Ting Sheng-Yo	Chinese Taipei	4:33.72	2	1
47	Daniela Kaori Miyahara Coello	Peru	4:33.75	2	6
48	Daniela Reyes Hinrichsen	Chile	4:34.09	2	7
49	Miriam Hatamleh	Jordan	4:41.02	2	0
50	Nicole Huerta	Dominican Republic	4:41.73	1	5
51	Ayesha Noel	Grenada	4:46.09	2	9
52	Vo Thi Thanh Vy	Vietnam	4:47.11	2	8
53	Diana Al Zamel	Syria	4:47.98	1	4
54	Sakina Ghulam	Pakistan	4:59.02	1	6
55	Estellah Fils Rabetsara	Madagascar	5:04.36	1	2
56	Tieri Erasito	Fiji	5:10.01	1	7
57	Mahnoor Maqsood	Pakistan	5:18.16	1	8
—	Sara Abdullahu	Albania	DNS	1	1

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Lane	Time	Notes
	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4	3:59.15	WR
	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	3	4:00.60	NR
	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	8	4:00.79
4	Allison Schmitt	United States	5	4:02.51
5	Coralie Balmy	France	6	4:03.29
6	Camelia Potec	Romania	2	4:03.41	NR
7	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	France	7	4:04.54
8	Lotte Friis	Denmark	1	4:07.62

See also

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

External links

• Worlds 2009 results: Women's 400m Free Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-27.
• Worlds 2009 results: Women's 400m Free Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-27.

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