Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The Women's 400 m Freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships was held on 26 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Medalist

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Federica Pellegrini  Italy	Joanne Jackson  Great Britain	Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain

Records

World Record (WR)
4:00.41	Federica Pellegrini	Riccione	27 June 2009
Championships Record (CR)
4:02.61	Laure Manaudou	Melbourne	25 March 2007

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.96	6	4	CR
2	Allison Schmitt	United States	4:02.80	6	3
3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	4:03.48	5	4
4	Coralie Balmy	France	4:04.12	5	5
5	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:04.25	6	5
6	Ophélie-Cyrielle Etienne	France	4:05.25	5	6
7	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:05.40	4	3	NR
8	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	4:05.70	4	4
9	Ellen Fullerton	Australia	4:08.31	4	2
10	Erika Villaécija García	Spain	4:08.77	5	2
11	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	4:09.30	6	7	NR
12	Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli	Argentina	4:10.16	4	1	SA
13	Chloe Sutton	United States	4:10.88	6	6
14	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	4:11.35	6	1
15	Wendy Trott	South Africa	4:11.45	6	2
16	Maiko Fujino	Japan	4:11.52	6	0
17	Flavia Zoccari	Italy	4:11.58	5	7
18	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	4:11.79	5	0	NR
19	Nuala Murphy	Ireland	4:13.51	3	3
20	Savannah King	Canada	4:13.58	5	8
21	Patricia Castañeda	Mexico	4:13.59	4	8
22	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	4:13.70	5	9	NR
23	Ren Junni	China	4:14.07	4	6
24	Elena Sokolova	Russia	4:14.38	5	3
25	Susana Escobar	Mexico	4:14.70	5	1
26	Yanel Pinto	Venezuela	4:14.74	3	6
27	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:15.62	4	5
28	Natsumi Iwashita	Japan	4:15.95	4	7
29	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	4:15.96	6	9
30	Lynette Lim	Singapore	4:16.35	3	7
31	Paula Żukowska	Poland	4:16.64	3	5
32	Ionela Cozma	Romania	4:16.79	2	2
33	Niamh O'Sullivan	Ireland	4:16.80	3	4
34	Nina Cesar	Slovenia	4:17.22	4	0
35	Cho Youn Soo	South Korea	4:17.59	3	1
36	Nika Karlina Petric	Slovenia	4:18.14	6	8
37	Heysi Villareal	Cuba	4:20.94	3	0
38	Erica Cirila Totten	Philippines	4:21.32	2	4
39	Pamela Benitez	El Salvador	4:21.58	3	9
40	Jeong Darae	South Korea	4:22.99	2	5
41	Kristina Bernice Lennox	Puerto Rico	4:23.26	3	8
42	Khoo Cai Lin	Malaysia	4:24.48	4	9
43	Kimberley Eeson	Zimbabwe	4:27.89	3	2
44	Andrea Cedron	Peru	4:29.80	2	3
45	Kirsten Lapham	Zimbabwe	4:33.57	1	3
46	Ting Sheng-Yo	Chinese Taipei	4:33.72	2	1
47	Daniela Kaori Miyahara Coello	Peru	4:33.75	2	6
48	Daniela Reyes Hinrichsen	Chile	4:34.09	2	7
49	Miriam Hatamleh	Jordan	4:41.02	2	0
50	Nicole Huerta	Dominican Republic	4:41.73	1	5
51	Ayesha Noel	Grenada	4:46.09	2	9
52	Vo Thi Thanh Vy	Vietnam	4:47.11	2	8
53	Diana Al Zamel	Syria	4:47.98	1	4
54	Sakina Ghulam	Pakistan	4:59.02	1	6
55	Estellah Fils Rabetsara	Madagascar	5:04.36	1	2
56	Tieri Erasito	Fiji	5:10.01	1	7
57	Mahnoor Maqsood	Pakistan	5:18.16	1	8
—	Sara Abdullahu	Albania	DNS	1	1

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Lane	Time	Notes
	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4	3:59.15	WR
	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	3	4:00.60	NR
	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	8	4:00.79
4	Allison Schmitt	United States	5	4:02.51
5	Coralie Balmy	France	6	4:03.29
6	Camelia Potec	Romania	2	4:03.41	NR
7	Ophélie-Cyrielle Etienne	France	7	4:04.54
8	Lotte Friis	Denmark	1	4:07.62

See also

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

External links

• Worlds 2009 results: Women's 400m Free Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-27.
• Worlds 2009 results: Women's 400m Free Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-27.