Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 27, 2012 (heats and final)
Competitors	26 from 17 nations
Winning time	4:05.31
Medalists
Coralie Balmy    France   Mireia Belmonte García    Spain   Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne    France

2012 European Aquatics Championships
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
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
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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
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The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 27. The heats and final took place on May 27.^[1]

Records[]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	3:59.15	Rome	July 26, 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.53	Eindhoven	March 24, 2008

Results[]

Heats[]

30 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Éva Risztov	Hungary	4:10.25	Q
2	3	6	Martina de Memme	Italy	4:10.44	Q
3	3	4	Coralie Balmy	France	4:11.07	Q
4	3	5	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:11.15	Q
5	4	3	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:11.43	Q
6	2	4	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	4:12.30	Q
7	2	5	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	France	4:12.86	Q
8	4	6	Alice Nesti	Italy	4:13.05	Q
9	3	3	Lydia Morant Varo	Spain	4:13.08
10	4	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:14.27
11	2	6	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	4:14.75
12	3	7	Silke Lippok	Germany	4:15.85
13	4	7	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:14.95
14	2	3	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	4:15.89
15	2	7	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:16.72
16	2	2		Norway	4:17.92
17	2	8		Slovenia	4:12.54
18	4	1	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	4:20.07
19	3	1	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	4:20.21
20	3	8	Iryna Glavnyk	Ukraine	4:20.40
21	4	8	Ursa Bezan	Slovenia	4:21.98
22	1	4		Ukraine	4:24.42
23	1	6	Jūratė Ščerbinskaitė	Lithuania	4:24.65
24	2	1		Poland	4:25.36
25	1	3	Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir	Iceland	4:31.65
26	1	2		Faroe Islands	4:42.88
	4	2	Isabelle Härle	Germany	DNS
	3	2	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	DNS
	1	5		Ireland	DNS
	1	7	Noora Laukkanen	Finland	DNS

Final[]

The final was held at 17:47.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Coralie Balmy	France	4:05.31
	7	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	4:05.45	NR
	1	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	France	4:07.47
4	4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	4:07.72
5	6	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:08.73
6	2	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:08.91
7	5	Martina de Memme	Italy	4:10.82
8	8	Alice Nesti	Italy	4:11.13

References[]