Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	16 May
Competitors	25 from 14 nations
Winning time	4:30.90
Medalists
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The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records edit

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ye Shiwen	China	4:28.43	London	28 July 2012
European record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:29.89	Marseille	4 March 2016
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:31.03	Berlin	18 August 2014

The heats were held at 10:51.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.97	Q, CR
2	3	5	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	4:37.49	Q
3	2	4	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:38.91	Q
4	2	3	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:39.10	Q
5	2	7	Carlotta Toni	Italy	4:39.60	Q
6	3	6	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	4:41.31	Q
7	2	5	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:41.63	Q
8	2	6	Luisa Trombetti	Italy	4:41.87	Q
9	3	3	Lara Grangeon	France	4:42.92
10	3	2	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	4:43.42
11	3	7	Sara Franceschi	Italy	4:44.28
12	2	2	Georgia Coates	Great Britain	4:44.62
13	1	6	Wendy van der Zanden	Netherlands	4:44.73
14	2	8	Paula Żukowska	Poland	4:45.88
15	3	8	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	4:46.45
16	3	1	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	4:48.01
17	2	1	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	4:48.76
18	1	4	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	4:50.71
19	3	0	Tanja Kylliaeinen	Finland	4:50.86
20	2	0	Julia Mrozinski	Germany	4:52.19
21	1	5	Jaqueline Hippi	Sweden	4:53.89
22	3	9	Patricia Aschan	Finland	4:55.71
23	1	3	Tereza Horáková	Czech Republic	4:56.16
24	2	9	Diana Duraes	Portugal	4:57.95
25	1	2	Sara Nysted	Faroe Islands	5:15.48

The final was held at 18:35.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:30.90	CR
	3	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:35.27
	6	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:38.39
4	5	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	4:40.08
5	2	Carlotta Toni	Italy	4:40.76
6	8	Luisa Trombetti	Italy	4:41.03
7	1	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:43.11
8	7	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	4:43.42