2022 World Para Swimming Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The women's 400m freestyle events at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships were held at the Penteada Olympic Swimming Complex in Madeira between 12 and 18 June.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
S6	Maisie Summers-Newton United Kingdom	Laila Suzigan Brazil	Nora Meister Switzerland
S7	McKenzie Coan United States	Giulia Terzi Italy	Ahalya Lettenberger United States
S8	Morgan Stickney United States	Xenia Palazzo Italy	Nahia Zudaire Borrezo Spain
S9	Toni Shaw Great Britain	Zsófia Konkoly Hungary	Summer Schmit United States
S10	Bianka Pap Hungary	Oliwia Jablonska Poland	Csenge Hotz Hungary
S11	Anastasia Pagonis United States	Liesette Bruinsma Netherlands	Matilde Alcázar Mexico
S13	Anna Stetsenko Ukraine	Katja Dedekind Australia	Carlotta Gilli Italy

7 swimmers from six nations took part.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nation	Result
	McKenzie Coan	United States	5:10.36
	Giulia Terzi	Italy	5:19.75
	Ahalya Lettenberger	Spain	5:22.11
4	Sabrina Duchesne	Canada	5:34.42
5	Agnes Kramer	Sweden	6:01.71
6	Denise Grahl	Germany	6:07.06
7	Ida Andersson Wulf	Sweden	6:24.65

11 swimmers from ten nations took part. The swimmers with the top eight times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Morgan Stickney	United States	4:53.01	Q
2	2	5	Nahia Zudaire Borrezo	Spain	5:09.20	Q
3	1	4	Xenia Palazzo	Italy	5:14.87	Q
4	1	6	Paola Ruvalcaba	Mexico	5:19.25	Q
5	1	3	Jade Le Bris	France	5:21.09	Q
6	2	3	Abi Tripp	Canada	5:23.26	Q
7	1	5	Mira Jeanne Maack	Germany	5:23.82	Q
8	2	2	Natalia Guemez	Mexico	5:44.57	Q
9	1	2	Ana Castro	Portugal	5:48.14
10	2	7	Nikola Badowska	Poland	6:04.37
	2	6	Vendula Dušková	Czech Republic	DNS

The final was held on 12 June 2022.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Result
	Morgan Stickney	United States	4:50.18
	Xenia Palazzo	Italy	5:02.54
	Nahia Zudaire Borrezo	Spain	5:05.40
4	Paola Ruvalcaba	Mexico	5:16.89
5	Abi Tripp	Canada	5:18.58
6	Mira Jeanne Maack	Germany	5:23.04
7	Jade Le Bris	France	5:23.40
8	Natalia Guemez	Mexico	5:41.24

^ "Women's 400m Freestyle S7 Finals" (PDF). paralympic.org. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
^ "Women's 400m Freestyle S8 Heats Summary" (PDF). paralympic.org. 12 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
^ "Women's 400m Freestyle S8 Finals" (PDF). paralympic.org. 12 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.