Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 24 August.^[1]

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 August
Competitors	25 from 16 nations
Winning time	4:03.24
Medalists
Jazmin Carlin    Great Britain   Sharon van Rouwendaal    Netherlands   Mireia Belmonte    Spain

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katie Ledecky	United States	3:58.86	Irvine	9 August 2014
European record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	3:59.15	Rome	26 July 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:01.53	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:07.09	Q
2	2	4	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:07.12	Q
3	3	7	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:07.59	Q
4	3	5	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:08.17	Q
5	3	6	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:09.17	Q
6	3	4	Melani Costa	Spain	4:09.59	Q
7	3	3	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:09.75	Q
8	3	1	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:09.84	Q
9	2	1	Sarah Köhler	Germany	4:10.37
10	2	6	Coralie Balmy	France	4:10.48
11	3	2	Aurora Ponselè	Italy	4:11.21
12	1	4	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:13.18
13	1	5	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	4:13.26
14	2	7	Johanna Friedrich	Germany	4:15.04
15	3	0	Julie Lauridsen	Denmark	4:15.44
16	2	0	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	4:15.98
17	3	8	Arina Openysheva	Russia	4:16.19
18	2	8	Esmee Vermeulen	Netherlands	4:17.04
19	3	9	Gaja Natlacen	Slovenia	4:17.69
20	1	6	Katarina Simonović	Croatia	4:20.09
21	1	1	Alyona Kyselyova	Ukraine	4:21.01
22	2	9	Maj Howardsen	Denmark	4:21.09
23	1	2	Lisa Stamm	Switzerland	4:23.40
24	1	7	Alena Benešová	Czech Republic	4:28.56
25	1	3	Anna-Marie Benešová	Czech Republic	4:29.11
—	2	2	Alice Mizzau	Italy		DNS
—	2	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary		DNS

Final

The final was held at 16:47.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	4:03.24
	3	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	4:03.76
	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:04.01
4	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	4:04.42
5	2	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	4:06.61
6	7	Melani Costa	Spain	4:07.42
7	1	Lotte Friis	Denmark	4:10.13
8	8	Diletta Carli	Italy	4:12.56