Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Venue	National Taiwan Sport University Arena
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Dates	26 August (heats and final)
Competitors	38 from 27 nations
Winning time	4:03.96
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 26 August 2017.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	3:56.46	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7 August 2016
Competition record	Leah Smith (USA)	4:04.66	Gwangju, South Korea	7 July 2015

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 August	Final	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:03.96	UR

The heats were held at 09:00.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:11.28	Q
2	5	5	Sierra Schmidt	United States	4:11.30	Q
3	5	6	Simona Quadarella	Italy	4:11.48	Q
4	5	6	Kaersten Meitz	United States	4:11.78	Q
5	4	5	Kiah Melverton	Australia	4:12.33	Q
6	4	4	Joanna Evans	Bahamas	4:12.52	Q
7	5	2	Kennedy Goss	Canada	4:13.08	Q
8	4	1	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:13.13	Q
9	4	2	Danica Ludlow	Canada	4:13.32
10	4	3	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	4:13.32
11	4	7	Linda Caponi	Italy	4:14.67
12	5	1	Camilla Hattersley	Great Britain	4:14.89
13	4	8	Arina Openysheva	Russia	4:15.36
14	4	6	Anna Egorova	Russia	4:15.49
15	2	4	Yuliia Krutoholova	Ukraine	4:16.48
16	5	7	Wakaba Tsuyuuchi	Japan	4:16.70
17	5	8	Marion Abert	France	4:17.94
18	3	5	Choi Jung-min	South Korea	4:19.70
19	3	6	Maria Paula Heitmann	Brazil	4:20.61
20	3	7	Milena Karpisz	Poland	4:21.14
21	3	3	Carina Doyle	New Zealand	4:21.79
22	2	5	Marieke Tienstra	Netherlands	4:22.41
23	3	1	Martina Elhenická	Czech Republic	4:22.94
24	3	8	Georgia Marris	New Zealand	4:23.06
25	3	2	Tereza Závadová	Czech Republic	4:23.07
26	3	4	Alizée Morel	France	4:23.37
27	2	6	Chang Fang-yu	Chinese Taipei	4:23.38
28	2	1	Zhu Jingwen	China	4:26.44
29	2	2	Lee Yen-ni	Chinese Taipei	4:27.13
30	1	3	Viktė Labanauskaitė	Lithuania	4:32.02
31	1	6	Olivia Carrizo	Argentina	4:33.79
32	1	4	Chrystelle Doueihy	Lebanon	4:40.18
33	1	2	Sara Moualfi	Algeria	4:40.35
34	2	3	Xu Rui	China	4:41.35
35	1	5	Sasha-Lee Nordengen-Corris	South Africa	4:42.00
36	2	8	Karol Camayo Agredo	Colombia	4:44.00
37	2	7	Laura Abril Lizarazo	Colombia	4:44.02
38	1	1	Joyce Palete	Philippines	5:46.42
	1	7	Carmenrose Matabuena	Philippines	DNS

The final was held at 20:04.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:03.96	UR, NR
	7	Joanna Evans	Bahamas	4:08.52
	5	Sierra Schmidt	United States	4:09.82
4	3	Simona Quadarella	Italy	4:10.49
5	6	Kaersten Meitz	United States	4:10.84
6	2	Kiah Melverton	Australia	4:12.42
7	8	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:13.20
8	1	Kennedy Goss	Canada	4:13.88