Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	23 July (heats and final)
Competitors	36 from 30 nations
Winning time	3:58.34
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 23 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	3:56.46	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7 August 2016
Competition record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	3:59.13	Kazan, Russia	2 August 2015

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
23 July	Heat	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:59.06	CR
23 July	Final	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.34	CR

The heats were held at 10:52.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:59.06	Q, CR
2	3	4	Leah Smith	United States	4:02.00	Q
3	4	3	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	4:04.26	Q
4	3	5	Li Bingjie	China	4:04.94	Q
5	4	5	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:05.93	Q
6	4	6	Zhang Yuhan	China	4:06.21	Q
7	4	7	Veronika Popova	Russia	4:06.40	Q
8	3	2	Ajna Késely	Hungary	4:06.48	Q
9	3	6	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	4:07.75
10	3	3	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:09.55
11	4	0	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	4:09.74
12	4	8	Mackenzie Padington	Canada	4:09.88
13	2	4	Diana Duraes	Portugal	4:10.07
14	3	8	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	4:11.06
15	4	2	Holly Hibbott	Great Britain	4:12.77
16	3	0	Leah Neale	Australia	4:13.38
17	2	1	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:13.85
18	4	9	Lee Ea-sop	South Korea	4:13.94
19	3	1	Arina Openysheva	Russia	4:15.45
20	3	9	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:17.05
21	3	7	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	4:17.46
22	2	5	Monique Olivier	Luxembourg	4:18.04
23	2	9	Marina Hansen	Denmark	4:18.86
24	2	7	Nicole Oliva	Philippines	4:19.23
25	2	6	Helena Moreno	Costa Rica	4:19.27
26	2	2	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	4:20.57
27	2	3	Kate Beavon	South Africa	4:20.82
28	2	0	Hania Moro	Egypt	4:21.67
29	2	8	Ressa Dewi	Indonesia	4:24.05
30	1	3	Gabriella Doueihy	Lebanon	4:25.34
31	1	1	Talita Te Flan	Ivory Coast	4:26.72
32	1	5	Sudthirak Watcharabusaracum	Thailand	4:30.96
33	1	4	Daniella van den Berg	Aruba	4:32.09
34	1	6	Hannah Gill	Barbados	4:42.55
35	1	7	Ishani Senanayake	Sri Lanka	4:45.48
36	1	2	Victoria Chentsova	Northern Mariana Islands	4:47.15
	4	1	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	DNS

The final was held at 18:03.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.34	CR
	5	Leah Smith	United States	4:01.54
	6	Li Bingjie	China	4:03.25
4	3	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	4:04.26
5	2	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:04.77
6	8	Ajna Késely	Hungary	4:05.75
7	7	Zhang Yuhan	China	4:06.03
8	1	Veronika Popova	Russia	4:07.59