Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Venue	National Taiwan Sport University Arena
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Dates	26 August (heats and final)
Competitors	38 from 27 nations
Winning time	4:03.96
Medalists
Sarah Köhler    Germany   Joanna Evans    Bahamas   Sierra Schmidt    United States
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The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 26 August 2017.^[1]

Records[]

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

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	3:56.46	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7 August 2016
Competition record	Leah Smith (USA)	4:04.66	Gwangju, South Korea	7 July 2015

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 August	Final	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:03.96	UR

Results[]

Heats[]

The heats were held at 09:00.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:11.28	Q
2	5	5	Sierra Schmidt	United States	4:11.30	Q
3	5	6	Simona Quadarella	Italy	4:11.48	Q
4	5	6		United States	4:11.78	Q
5	4	5	Kiah Melverton	Australia	4:12.33	Q
6	4	4	Joanna Evans	Bahamas	4:12.52	Q
7	5	2	Kennedy Goss	Canada	4:13.08	Q
8	4	1	Julia Hassler		4:13.13	Q
9	4	2	Danica Ludlow	Canada	4:13.32
10	4	3	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	4:13.32
11	4	7		Italy	4:14.67
12	5	1	Camilla Hattersley	Great Britain	4:14.89
13	4	8	Arina Openysheva	Russia	4:15.36
14	4	6	Anna Egorova	Russia	4:15.49
15	2	4		Ukraine	4:16.48
16	5	7		Japan	4:16.70
17	5	8		France	4:17.94
18	3	5	Choi Jung-min	South Korea	4:19.70
19	3	6	Maria Paula Heitmann	Brazil	4:20.61
20	3	7		Poland	4:21.14
21	3	3	Carina Doyle		4:21.79
22	2	5	Marieke Tienstra		4:22.41
23	3	1	Martina Elhenická	Czech Republic	4:22.94
24	3	8	Georgia Marris		4:23.06
25	3	2		Czech Republic	4:23.07
26	3	4		France	4:23.37
27	2	6		Chinese Taipei	4:23.38
28	2	1		China	4:26.44
29	2	2		Chinese Taipei	4:27.13
30	1	3		Lithuania	4:32.02
31	1	6		Argentina	4:33.79
32	1	4			4:40.18
33	1	2		Algeria	4:40.35
34	2	3		China	4:41.35
35	1	5			4:42.00
36	2	8		Colombia	4:44.00
37	2	7		Colombia	4:44.02
38	1	1		Philippines	5:46.42
	1	7		Philippines	DNS

Final[]

The final was held at 20:04.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:03.96	UR, NR
	7	Joanna Evans	Bahamas	4:08.52
	5	Sierra Schmidt	United States	4:09.82
4	3	Simona Quadarella	Italy	4:10.49
5	6		United States	4:10.84
6	2	Kiah Melverton	Australia	4:12.42
7	8	Julia Hassler		4:13.20
8	1	Kennedy Goss	Canada	4:13.88

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