Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4x200m Free Relay at the 2001 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 July 2001 (prelims & finals)
Medalists
Great Britain    Germany    Japan
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The Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan. Preliminary^[1] heats swam in the morning session, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final that evening.

In the final, the Australian team originally finished first, with the United States second, and Great Britain taking the bronze. However, soon after finishing, the American team was disqualified for an early changeover, and following that, the Australians were also disqualified for entering the pool before all other teams had finished.^[2] Both appealed their disqualifications, with America initially being reinstated due to video evidence. However, the original decisions were eventually upheld^[3] meaning that Great Britain took the gold medal, Germany the silver, and Japan the bronze.

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 7:55.47 swum by East Germany on August 18, 1987 in Strasbourg, France.
• CR: 7:57.96 swum by China on September 5, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results[]

Final[]

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Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	Nicola Jackson (2:00.05), Janine Belton (2:00.64), Karen Legg (1:58.95), Karen Pickering (1:59.05)	7:58.69
2	Germany	Silvia Szalai (2:00.39), Sara Harstick (1:59.48), Hannah Stockbauer (1:59.06), Meike Freitag (2:02.42)	8:01.35
3	Japan	Maki Mita (2:00.38), Tomoko Hagiwara (1:59.25), Tomoko Nagai (2:00.98), Eri Yamanoi (2:02.36)	8:02.97
4	Canada	Marianne Limpert (2:01.13), Jessica Deglau (2:00.65), Sophie Simard (2:02.47), Laura Nicholls (2:02.17)	8:06.42
5	Spain	Laura Roca (2:01.77), Tatiana Rouba (2:01.75), (2:01.91), Paula Carballido (2:01.12)	8:06.55
6	Italy	Cecilia Vianini (2:01.59), Cristina Chiuso (2:02.27), Sara Parise (2:01.76), Luisa Striani (2:02.94)	8:08.56
7	Australia	Elka Graham (1:58.54), Linda MacKenzie (2:00.15), Petria Thomas (1:59.15), Giaan Rooney (1:58.16)	DQ	7:56.00
8	USA	Natalie Coughlin (1:59.94), Cristina Teuscher (1:58.54), Julie Hardt 1:59.70, Diana Munz (1:58.35)	DQ	7:56.53

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1		Nicola Jackson (2:00.58), Janine Belton (2:00.99), Karen Legg (1:59.15), Karen Pickering (2:02.24)	8:02.96	q
2		Petria Thomas (2:00.67), Kasey Giteau (2:02.90) Linda MacKenzie (1:59.79), (2:00.52)	8:03.88	q
3		Silvia Szalai (1:59.74), Alessa Ries (2:03.41), Sara Harstick (1:59.60), Meike Freitag (2:02.08)	8:04.83	q
4		(2:01.47), (2:03.24) Julie Hardt (1:59.25), Maritza Correia (2:01.06)	8:05.02	q
5		Tomoko Nagai (2:01.90), Maki Mita (2:00.00) Tomoko Hagiwara (2:01.18), Eri Yamanoi (2:02.68)	8:05.76	q
6		Sara Parise (2:02.65), Cristina Chiuso (2:01.95), Luisa Striani (2:01.29), Cecilia Vianini (2:00.34)	8:06.23	q
7		Marianne Limpert (2:01.28), Jessica Deglau (2:00.51), Sophie Simard (2:02.34), Laura Nicholls (2:02.35)	8:06.48	q
8		Laura Roca (2:00.77), Tatiana Rouba (2:03.10), (2:02.14), Paula Carballido (2:01.98)	8:07.99	q
9		Zhu Yingwen (2:01.96), Chen Hua (2:03.24) Xu Yanwei (2:02.22), Yang Yu (2:00.95)	8:08.37
10		(2:05.14), Irina Oufimtseva (2:00.62) (2:03.70), Nadezhda Chemezova (2:03.22)	8:12.68
11		Camelia Potec (2:00.36), Simona Paduraru (2:02.06) Florina Herea (2:05.25), (2:12.89)	8:20.56
12		Lin Chi-Chan (2:06.53), Kuan Chia-Hsien (2:09.82) Yang Chin-Kuei (2:14.56), (2:12.03)	8:42.94
13		Christel Bouvron (2:08.03), Nicolette Teo (2:13.45) (2:16.00), (2:10.50)	8:47.98

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