Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 27. The heats and final took place on May 27.

Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 27, 2012 (heats and final)
Competitors	60 from 13 nations
Winning time	3:58.43
Medalists
Jenny Mensing Sarah Poewe Alexandra Wenk Britta Steffen   Germany   Arianna Barbieri Ilaria Bianchi Chiara Boggiatto Alice Mizzau   Italy   Therese Svendsen Joline Höstman Martina Granström Nathalie Lindborg   Sweden

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	China	3:52.19	Rome	August 1, 2009
European record	Germany	3:55.79	Rome	August 1, 2009
Championship record	Great Britain	3:59.33	Eindhoven	March 24, 2008

Results

Heats

15 nations participated in 2 heats.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Carlotta Zofkova Chiara Boggiatto Silvia Di Pietro Alice Mizzau	Italy	4:04.99	Q
2	1	1	Lisa Graf Caroline Ruhnau Sina Sutter Daniela Schreiber	Germany	4:05.11	Q
3	1	6	Therese Svendsen Joline Höstman Martina Granström Nathalie Lindborg	Sweden	4:06.00	Q
4	2	6	Mercedes Peris Concepcion Badillo Diaz Judit Ignacio Sorribes Patricia Castro Ortega	Spain	4:06.13	Q
5	2	8	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir Sarah Blake Bateman Eva Hannesdóttir	Iceland	4:07.33	Q
6	1	2	Hazal Sarikaya Dilara Buse Günaydin Ayse Ezgi Yazici Burcu Dolunay	Turkey	4:08.63	Q
7	2	3	Anni Alitalo Jenna Laukkanen Emilia Pikkarainen Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	4:08.67	Q
8	2	2	Eszter Povázsay Anna Sztankovics Liliána Szilágyi Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	4:09.10	Q
9	1	4	Uschi Halbreiner Lisa Zaiser Birgit Koschischek Eva Chavez-Diaz	Austria	4:10.75	NR
10	2	5	Alicja Tchorz Ewa Scieszko Anna Dowgiert Aleksandra Urbanczyk	Poland	4:11.36
11	2	4	Kristina Krasyukova Irina Novikova Daria Tcvetkova Maria Ugolkova	Russia	4:11.63
12	1	7	Melanie Nocher Fiona Doyle Bethany Carson Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	4:13.75
	2	7	Veronica Orheim Bjørlykke Katharina Stiberg Ingvild Snildal Henriette Brekke	Norway	DSQ
	2	1		Greece	DNS
	1	5		Czech Republic	DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:02.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Jenny Mensing Sarah Poewe Alexandra Wenk Britta Steffen	Germany	3:58.43	CR
	4	Arianna Barbieri Ilaria Bianchi Chiara Boggiatto Alice Mizzau	Italy	4:01.92	NR
	3	Therese Svendsen Joline Höstman Martina Granström Nathalie Lindborg	Sweden	4:05.58
4	2	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir Sarah Blake Bateman Eva Hannesdóttir	Iceland	4:06.64	NR
5	6	Mercedes Peris Concepcion Badillo Diaz Judit Ignacio Sorribes Patricia Castro Ortega	Spain	4:06.78
6	8	Evelyn Verrasztó Anna Sztankovics Zsuzsanna Jakabos Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:07.19
7	1	Anni Alitalo Jenna Laukkanen Emilia Pikkarainen Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	4:07.55	NR
8	7	Hazal Sarikaya Dilara Buse Günaydin Ayse Ezgi Yazici Burcu Dolunay	Turkey	4:07.56	NR