Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley
Introduction The heats and finals for the '''women's 400 m individual medley''' race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley is: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: '''World record'''   '''4:29.45''' Beijing, China  10 August 2008 '''Championship record'''    '''4:32.89''' Melbourne, Australia  1 April 2007The following records were established during the competition:DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 2 August  Final  Katinka Hosszú   Hungary  4:30.31  '''CR'''
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1  Stephanie Rice     4:34.62  6  4   2  Elizabeth Beisel     4:34.80  6  5   3  Katinka Hosszú     4:35.15  5  5   4  Tanya Hunks     4:35.84  5  8  '''NR''' 4  Julia Smit     4:35.84  6  3   6  Hannah Miley     4:36.27  4  4   7  Kirsty Coventry     4:36.42  5  4   8  Zsuzsanna Jakabos     4:37.47  6  6   9  Samantha Hamill     4:37.84  6  1   10  Julie Hjorth-Hansen     4:38.20  5  1  '''NR''' 11  Alessia Filippi     4:39.58  4  5   12  Yana Martynova     4:39.83   5  3   13  Keri-anne Payne     4:40.92  5  6   14  Anja Klinar     4:41.00  4  6   15  Annika Mehlhorn     4:41.20  5  0   16  Alexa Komarnycky     4:41.55  5  2   17  Barbora Závadová     4:41.90  3  2    18  Stina Gardell     4:42.71  4  9  '''NR''' 19  Anastasia Ivanenko     4:42.96  6  8    20  Gráinne Murphy     4:43.20  3  4   21  Francesca Segat     4:43.77  4  8   22  Joanna Maranhão     4:43.87  4  2   23  Karolina Szczepaniak     4:45.13  3  5   24  Jessica Pengelly     4:46.31  4  1   25  Asami Kitagawa     4:46.57  6  9   26  Lara Grangeon     4:46.93  5  7    27  Maiko Fujino     4:47.11  4  7   28  Zheng Rongrong     4:48.87  5  9   29  Jordis Steinegger     4:49.74  6  0   30  Marina Ribi     4:50.53  3  0  '''NR''' 31  Katheryn Meaklim     4:51.09  4  3   32  Nuala Murphy     4:52.12  3  1    33  Paula Zukowska     4:53.52  3  7   34  Nina Dittrich     4:55.10  1  3   35  Nika Karlina Petric     4:58.90  3  6   36  Maroua Mathlouthi     5:00.95  3  9   37  Koh Hui Yu     5:02.13  2  7   38  Chen Ting     5:02.97  2  3   39  Erika Stewart     5:04.24  1  5   40  Maria Coy     5:06.74  2  5   41  Ting Sheng-Yo     5:07.73  2  8   42  Koh Ting Ting     5:09.52  2  6   43  Nibal Yamout     5:13.71  2  2   44  Pooja Raghava Alva     5:28.37  2  0   45  Stephanie Rasoamanana     5:56.61  2  9    –  Sakina Ghulam     DNS  1  4    –  Sara Nordenstam     DNS  6  7   –  Samantha Arevalo     DQ  2  1   –  Tetyana Khala     DQ  2  4   –  Louise Mai Jansen     DQ  3  3   –  Anna-Liisa Põld     DQ  3  8   –  Liu Jing     DQ  4  0   –  Mireia Belmonte García     DQ  6  2  ===Finals=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Lane  Notes   Katinka Hosszú     4:30.31  3  '''CR''', '''ER'''   Kirsty Coventry     4:32.12  1      Stephanie Rice     4:32.29  4    4  Hannah Miley     4:32.72  7   5  Elizabeth Beisel     4:34.90  5   6  Julia Smit     4:35.33  2   7  Zsuzsanna Jakabos     4:37.85  8   8  Tanya Hunks     4:38.15  6
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