Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March (preliminaries and finals) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 4:02.13, Laure Manaudou (France), 6 August 2006 in Budapest, Hungary
• Championship record (CR): 4:06.28, Tracey Wickham (Australia), at West Berlin 1978 (24 August 1978)

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Splits (50m, 100m, 150m...350m)	Time	Notes
	4	Laure Manaudou	France	27.35   57.34   1:27.69   1:58.69 2:29.73   3:01.10   3:32.36	4:02.61	CR
	7	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	28.86   59.55   1:30.79   2:02.04 2:32.77   3:03.53   3:34.28	4:04.23	NR
	3	Ai Shibata	Japan	28.54   59.15   1:30.38   2:01.58 2:32.57   3:03.95   3:34.88	4:05.19	NR
4	8	Katie Hoff	USA	29.16   1:00.14   1:30.80   2:02.68 2:33.35   3:04.33   3:35.20	4:05.65
5	5	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	28.94   59.86   1:30.80   2:02.16 2:33.04   3:04.46   3:35.38	4:05.79
6	6	Kate Ziegler	USA	28.88   59.69   1:30.74   2:02.30 2:33.44   3:05.04   3:36.63	4:06.99
7	1	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	28.39   59.36   1:30.35   2:02.08 2:33.33   3:05.16   3:36.56	4:07.42
8	2	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	28.36   59.39   1:30.66   2:02.27 2:33.63   3:05.23   3:36.69	4:07.64

Preliminary heats[]

Rank	Heat & Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	H9 L4	Laure Manaudou	France	4:05.29	Q, CR
2	H9 L6	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:06.51	Q
3	H8 L5	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.17	Q
4	H8 L4	Kate Ziegler	United States	4:07.18	Q
5	H9 L5	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:07.26	Q
6	H7 L2	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	4:08.16	Q
7	H9 L3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	4:08.17	Q
8	H7 L4	Katie Hoff	United States	4:08.38	Q
8.5
9	H7 L5	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	4:08.52
10	H8 L3	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:08.99
11	H9 L7	Sophie Huber	France	4:09.80
12	H8 L7	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:10.85
13	H8 L2	Miao Tan	China	4:11.37
14	H9 L2	Arantxa Ramos Plasencia	Spain	4:11.40
15	H8 L6	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:11.83
16	H8 L1	Flavia Rigamonti	Switzerland	4:11.85
17	H9 L1	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	4:11.98
18	H7 L8	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:12.99
19	H7 L1	Wendy Trott	South Africa	4:13.92
20	H7 L6	Yu Rui	China	4:13.94
21	H8 L8	Tanya Hunks	Canada	4:14.68
22	H7 L3	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:15.40
23	H7 L7	Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli	Argentina	4:16.71
24	H6 L5		Poland	4:17.50
25	H6 L6	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	4:20.05
26	H6 L8	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	4:20.84
27	H5 L4	Golda Marcus	El Salvador	4:22.17
28	H5 L8		Malaysia	4:22.43
29	H6 L4	Chin Kuei Yang	Chinese Taipei	4:22.59
30	H6 L1		Denmark	4:22.76
31	H6 L7		Singapore	4:23.57
32	H6 L2		Hong Kong	4:24.07
33	H5 L7	Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn	Thailand	4:24.38
34	H5 L5	Maroua Mathlouthi	Tunisia	4:24.47
35	H5 L6		Slovenia	4:24.96
36	H4 L5		Philippines	4:25.13
37	H4 L7		Zimbabwe	4:26.23
38	H4 L4	Lynette Lim	Singapore	4:26.97
39	H9 L8		South Korea	4:27.29
40	H5 L3	Heysi Villarreal Navarro	Cuba	4:30.50
41	H6 L3	Shrone Austin	Seychelles	4:30.56
42	H4 L2		Philippines	4:30.98
43	H5 L1		Algeria	4:32.08
44	H4 L8		Peru	4:32.85
45	H4 L3		Chile	4:32.98
46	H3 L7		Faroe Islands	4:34.47
47	H5 L2	Cai Lin Khoo	Malaysia	4:35.96
48	H4 L1		Peru	4:36.04
49	H3 L2		Faroe Islands	4:36.15
50	H4 L6	Pin Chieh Nieh	Chinese Taipei	4:36.23
51	H3 L6		Morocco	4:37.84
52	H3 L4	Matana Wellman	Zambia	4:38.06
53	H2 L6	Ranohon Amanova	Uzbekistan	4:41.26
54	H3 L3		Aruba	4:42.33
55	H3 L5		Grenada	4:43.79
56	H3 L8		Namibia	4:44.24
57	H2 L1		Seychelles	4:44.96
58	H2 L5		Jordan	4:47.43
59	H3 L1		India	4:50.32
60	H2 L3		Jordan	4:58.89
61	H2 L7	Tojohanitra   Andiamanjatoprimamama	Madagascar	5:01.53
62	H2 L4		Macau	5:03.89
63	H1 L4		Northern Mariana Islands	5:05.03
64	H2 L8		Pakistan	5:11.10
65	H1 L5		Fiji	5:27.81
999	H1 L3		Nigeria	DNS
999	H2 L2	Ngozi Monu	Nigeria	DNS

References[]

• 2007 Worlds results: Women's 400m free--Prelims from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 World Championships); Retrieved 2009-07-09.
• 2007 Worlds results: Women's 400m free--Finals from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 World Championships); Retrieved 2009-07-09.