2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Duna Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	10 December (heats and final)
Competitors	41 from 35 nations
Winning time	3:50.25 WR
Medalists
	← 2022 2026 →

The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 10 December 2024.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Li Bingjie (CHN)	3:51.30	Beijing, China	27 October 2022
Competition record	Ariarne Titmus (AUS)	3:53.92	Hangzhou, China	14 December 2018

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
10 December	Final	Summer McIntosh	Canada	3:50.25	WR

The heats were started at 09:02.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Summer McIntosh	Canada	3:57.55	Q
2	5	4	Lani Pallister	Australia	3:57.97	Q
3	5	6	Claire Weinstein	United States	3:58.58	Q
4	5	2	Paige Madden	United States	3:58.83	Q
5	5	7	Isabel Gose	Germany	3:59.87	Q
6	4	4	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	4:00.04	Q
7	4	6	Leah Neale	Australia	4:01.99	Q
8	4	2	Sofia Diakova	Neutral Athletes B	4:02.03	Q
9	4	5	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	4:02.52
10	4	3	Miyu Namba	Japan	4:02.75
11	4	1	Ajna Késely	Hungary	4:03.14
12	4	7	Helena Rosendahl Bach	Denmark	4:03.63
13	5	3	Simona Quadarella	Italy	4:04.08
14	3	1	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	4:04.17
15	5	1	Kong Yaqi	China	4:05.19
16	4	9	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	4:06.27
17	3	3	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:06.58
18	3	4	Letícia Romão	Brazil	4:08.15
19	4	0	Liang Xiaolan	China	4:08.46
20	5	9	Amelie Blocksidge	Great Britain	4:08.96
21	5	8	Francisca Martins	Portugal	4:09.39
22	5	0	Deniz Ertan	Turkey	4:10.25
23	3	7	Iman Avdić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:10.83
24	3	2	Tiffany Murillo	Colombia	4:11.00
25	4	8	Wiktoria Guść	Poland	4:11.06
26	3	6	Delfina Dini	Argentina	4:11.43
27	3	9	María Yegres	Venezuela	4:12.34
28	3	8	Hannah Robertson	South Africa	4:12.77
29	2	6	Kyra Rabess	Cayman Islands	4:14.77
30	2	4	Laura Benková	Slovakia	4:15.03
31	3	0	Vala Dís Cicero	Iceland	4:16.11
32	2	5	Gilaine Ma	Hong Kong	4:16.71
33	3	5	Han Da-kyung	South Korea	4:20.03
34	2	2	Sara Jankovikj	North Macedonia	4:22.11
35	2	7	Karin Belbeisi	Jordan	4:24.70
36	2	8	Jehanara Nabi	Pakistan	4:26.85
37	2	1	Michell Ramírez	Honduras	4:29.31
38	2	3	Keisy Castro	Costa Rica	4:29.83
39	1	4	Hashika Ramachandra	India	4:30.30
40	1	5	Riga Shala	Kosovo	4:44.01
41	1	3	Adaya Sian Bourne	Sint Maarten	5:08.74

The final was held at 17:32.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	3:50.25	WR
	5	Lani Pallister	Australia	3:53.73	OC
	7	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	3:54.88
4	6	Paige Madden	United States	3:55.12
5	3	Claire Weinstein	United States	3:56.12
6	2	Isabel Gose	Germany	3:56.84
7	1	Leah Neale	Australia	4:01.45
8	8	Sofia Diakova	Neutral Athletes B	4:02.27

^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
^ "Women's 400m Freestyle – Heats – Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
^ "Women's 400m Freestyle – Final – Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.