Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	23 July (heats and final)
Competitors	41 from 31 nations
Winning time	3:55.38 WR
Medalists
	← 2022 2024 →

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 23 July 2023.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[4]

World record	Summer McIntosh (CAN)	3:56.08	Toronto, Canada	28 March 2023
Competition record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	3:58.15	Budapest, Hungary	18 June 2022

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
23 July	Final	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	3:55.38	WR

The heats were started at 11:56.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Katie Ledecky	United States	4:00.80	Q
2	4	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	4:01.39	Q
3	5	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	4:01.72	Q
4	4	6	Isabel Gose	Germany	4:03.02	Q, NR
5	4	5	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	4:03.07	Q
6	4	3	Lani Pallister	Australia	4:03.49	Q
7	5	6	Bella Sims	United States	4:04.25	Q
8	5	3	Li Bingjie	China	4:04.98	Q
9	5	1	Ajna Késely	Hungary	4:07.08
10	4	1	Waka Kobori	Japan	4:07.48
11	4	7	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	4:07.99
12	4	8	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	4:08.67
13	5	8	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	4:09.02
14	4	9	Anastasiya Kirpichnikova	France	4:09.43
15	3	5	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	4:10.09
16	5	2	Miyu Namba	Japan	4:10.23
17	4	2	Ma Yonghui	China	4:10.64
18	3	1	Han Da-kyung	South Korea	4:11.08
19	3	3	Deniz Ertan	Turkey	4:11.29
20	5	7	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	4:11.33
21	3	2	Imani de Jong	Netherlands	4:12.03
22	5	0	Ella Jansen	Canada	4:12.77
23	5	9	Bettina Fábián	Hungary	4:12.83
24	3	9	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	4:13.10
25	3	0	Marlene Kahler	Austria	4:13.13
26	4	0	Merve Tuncel	Turkey	4:13.34
27	3	8	Daria Golovaty	Israel	4:14.33
28	3	7	Paula Otero	Spain	4:14.63
29	2	4	María Yegres	Venezuela	4:15.79
30	3	6	Cyrielle Duhamel	France	4:16.97
31	3	4	Katja Fain	Slovenia	4:18.05
32	2	6	Iman Avdić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:20.04
33	2	5	Batbayaryn Enkhkhüslen	Mongolia	4:21.39
34	2	3	Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên	Vietnam	4:23.21
35	2	2	Eva Petrovska	North Macedonia	4:24.92
36	2	1	Harper Barrowman	Cayman Islands	4:26.88
37	2	8	Danielle Treasure	Barbados	4:32.39
38	2	7	Sasha Gatt	Malta	4:35.45
39	1	3	Anna Nikishkina	Kyrgyzstan	4:36.12
40	1	4	Natalia Kuipers	U.S. Virgin Islands	4:38.00
41	1	5	Amaya Bollinger	Guam	5:16.50

The final was started at 20:32.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	3:55.38	WR
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.73
	2	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	3:59.59	NR
4	3	Summer McIntosh	Canada	3:59.94
5	8	Li Bingjie	China	4:01.65
6	7	Lani Pallister	Australia	4:05.17
7	6	Isabel Gose	Germany	4:05.27
8	1	Bella Sims	United States	4:05.37

^ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
^ "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.
^ "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
^ "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 23 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 November 2023.
^ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 23 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.