Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	17 May 2021
Competitors	15 from 7 nations
Winning time	4:34.76
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 May 2021.^[1]^[2]

Records

Before the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:26.36	Rio de Janeiro	6 August 2016
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.90	London	16 May 2016

The heats were started at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:37.42	Q
2	2	2	Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas	Hungary	4:38.07	Q
3	1	6	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:40.03
4	1	4	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	4:40.19	Q
5	2	6	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:40.50
6	1	5	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	4:40.82	Q
7	2	3	Anja Crevar	Serbia	4:41.14	Q
8	2	7	Catalina Corró	Spain	4:43.49	Q
9	1	1	Zoe Vogelmann	Germany	4:43.51	Q
10	2	5	Sara Franceschi	Italy	4:44.65	Q
11	1	3	Alba Vázquez	Spain	4:45.26
12	1	2	Kim Herkle	Germany	4:46.86
13	2	1	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	4:47.28
14	1	7	Giulia Goerigk	Germany	4:48.36
15	2	8	Iman Avdić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5:06.88

The final was held at 18:00.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:34.76
	5	Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas	Hungary	4:36.81
	3	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	4:36.81
4	6	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	4:38.08
5	8	Sara Franceschi	Italy	4:40.74
6	2	Anja Crevar	Serbia	4:40.84
7	1	Zoe Vogelmann	Germany	4:45.61
8	7	Catalina Corró	Spain	4:46.03