The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July at the Paris Aquatics Centre.[1] 23 swimmers took part.
| Women's 400 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 27 July 2024 (Heats and Final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:57.49 | ||||||||||||
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Records
editPrior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record |  Ariarne Titmus (AUS) |
3:55.38 | Fukuoka, Japan | 23 July 2023 |
| Olympic record |  Katie Ledecky (USA) |
3:56.46 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 7 August 2016 |
Qualification
editEach National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT).[2] For this event, the OQT was 4:07.90. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.[2][3] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 4:09.14 for this event.[2] In total, 19 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, three athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT.[3]
Competition format
editThe competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.
Schedule
editAll times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2024 | 10:00 | Heats |
| 17:30 | Final |
Results
editHeats
edit| Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 5 | Katie Ledecky |  United States |
4:02.19 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Ariarne Titmus |  Australia |
4:02.46 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Erika Fairweather |  New Zealand |
4:02.55 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 4 | Summer McIntosh |  Canada |
4:02.65 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Jamie Perkins | Australia |
4:03.30 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Paige Madden | United States |
4:03.34 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Maria Fernanda Costa |  Brazil |
4:03.47 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 6 | Isabel Marie Gose |  Germany |
4:03.83 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Li Bingjie |  China |
4:03.96 | |
| 10 | 3 | 7 | Liu Yaxin | China |
4:04.39 | |
| 11 | 3 | 1 | Waka Kobori |  Japan |
4:08.02 | |
| 12 | 2 | 1 | Valentine Dumont |  Belgium |
4:08.25 | |
| 13 | 3 | 8 | Ajna Késely |  Hungary |
4:08.90 | |
| 14 | 1 | 4 | Leonie Märtens | Germany |
4:09.62 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Anastasiya Kirpichnikova |  France |
4:10.32 | |
| 16 | 3 | 2 | Gabrielle Roncatto | Brazil |
4:10.46 | |
| 17 | 2 | 7 | Eve Thomas | New Zealand |
4:11.86 | |
| 18 | 1 | 5 | Agostina Hein |  Argentina |
4:14.24 | |
| 19 | 1 | 6 | Anastasiya Zelinskaya |  Uzbekistan |
4:31.71 | |
| 20 | 1 | 2 | Natalia Jean Kuipers |  Virgin Islands |
4:33.46 | |
| 21 | 1 | 3 | Karin Belbeisi |  Jordan |
4:37.30 |
Final
edit| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
5 | Ariarne Titmus | Australia |
3:57.49 | |
 |
6 | Summer McIntosh | Canada |
3:58.37 | |
 |
4 | Katie Ledecky | United States |
4:00.86 | |
| 4 | 3 | Erika Fairweather | New Zealand |
4:01.12 | |
| 5 | 8 | Isabel Marie Gose | Germany |
4:02.14 | NR |
| 6 | 7 | Paige Madden | United States |
4:02.26 | |
| 7 | 1 | Maria Fernanda Costa | Brazil |
4:03.53 | |
| 8 | 2 | Jamie Perkins | Australia |
4:04.96 |
| Name | 100 metre split | 200 metre split | 300 metre split | Time | Stroke rate (strokes/min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariarne Titmus | 00:56.92 | 01:56.97 | 02:56.92 | 3:57.49 | 43.8 |
| Summer McIntosh | 00:57.03 | 01:57.32 | 02:57.48 | 3:58.37 | 44.1 |
| Katie Ledecky | 00:57.69 | 01:58.52 | 02:59.51 | 4:00.86 | 47.4 |
| Erika Fairweather | 00:57.65 | 01:58.98 | 03:01.16 | 4:01.12 | 42.8 |
| Isabel Marie Gose | 00:58.17 | 01:59.19 | 03:00.75 | 4:02.14 | 48.1 |
| Paige Madden | 00:57.77 | 01:59.19 | 03:31.42 | 4:02.26 | 42.5 |
| Maria Fernanda Costa | 00:58.25 | 02:00.27 | 03:02.90 | 4:03.53 | 42.4 |
| Jamie Perkins | 00:58.19 | 01:59.92 | 03:02.56 | 4:04.96 | 42.1 |
References
edit- ^ "Swimming – Women's 400m Freestyle Schedule". Paris 2024.
- ^ a b c "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ a b Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Bodard, Simon; Decron, Nathan; Dernoncourt, Eric; Hui, Pierre; Jambu, Clément; Loisel, Camille; Pla, Robin; Raineteau, Yannis. "Jeux Olympiques 2024: Analyses de course des Finales" (PDF). French Swimming Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.