Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 August
Competitors	25 from 16 nations
Winning time	4:03.24
Medalists

The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 24 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.86	Irvine	9 August 2014
European record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	3:59.15	Rome	26 July 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.53	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:07.09	Q
2	2	4	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:07.12	Q
3	3	7	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:07.59	Q
4	3	5	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:08.17	Q
5	3	6	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:09.17	Q
6	3	4	Melani Costa	Spain	4:09.59	Q
7	3	3	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:09.75	Q
8	3	1	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:09.84	Q
9	2	1	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:10.37
10	2	6	Coralie Balmy	France	4:10.48
11	3	2	Aurora Ponselè	Italy	4:11.21
12	1	4	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:13.18
13	1	5	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	4:13.26
14	2	7	Johanna Friedrich	Germany	4:15.04
15	3	0	Julie Lauridsen	Denmark	4:15.44
16	2	0	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:15.98
17	3	8	Arina Openysheva	Russia	4:16.19
18	2	8	Esmee Vermeulen	Netherlands	4:17.04
19	3	9	Gaja Natlacen	Slovenia	4:17.69
20	1	6	Katarina Simonović	Croatia	4:20.09
21	1	1	Alyona Kyselyova	Ukraine	4:21.01
22	2	9	Maj Howardsen	Denmark	4:21.09
23	1	2	Lisa Stamm	Switzerland	4:23.40
24	1	7	Alena Benešová	Czech Republic	4:28.56
25	1	3	Anna-Marie Benešová	Czech Republic	4:29.11
—	2	2	Alice Mizzau	Italy		DNS
—	2	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary		DNS

The final was held at 16:47.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	6	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:03.24
	3	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:03.76
	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:04.01
4	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:04.42
5	2	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:06.61
6	7	Melani Costa	Spain	4:07.42
7	1	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:10.13
8	8	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:12.56

2014 European Aquatics Championships

Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
	mixed
4 × 200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
	mixed
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Team	team
Synchronised swimming
Individual	Solo	Duet
Team	Team	Combination
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	team