Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 29 March 2007 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The top-12 finishers from this race qualified for the event at the 2008 Olympics. 25 teams were entered in the event; all swam.

The existing records when the event started were: World Record (WR): 7:50.82, Germany (Dallmann, Samulski, Steffen, Liebs), 3 August 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. Championship Record (CR): 7:53.70, USA (Coughlin, Hoff, Myers, Sandeno), Montreal 2005 (Jul.28.2005)

Results

Finals Place Nation Swimmers Time Note 1st USA Natalie Coughlin   (1:56.43) AM Dana Vollmer   (1:57.49) Lacey Nymeyer   (1:59.19) Katie Hoff   (1:56.98) 7:50.09 2nd Germany Meike Freitag   (1:59.56) Britta Steffen   (1:57.58) Petra Dallmann   (2:00.40) Annika Lurz   (1:56.28) 7:53.82 3rd France Alena Popchanka   (1:57.86) Sophie Huber   (1:58.80) Aurore Mongel   (2:01.04) Laure Manaudou   (1:58.26) 7:55.96 4th Australia Lisbeth Lenton   (1:59.01) Jodie Henry   (1:59.29) Lara Davenport   (1:59.28) Stephanie Rice   (1:58.84) 7:56.42 5th Great Britain Caitlin McClatchey   (1:59.12) Melanie Marshall   (1:59.54) Francesca Halsall   (1:59.92) Joanne Jackson   (1:58.44) 7:57.02 6th Japan Maki Mita   (1:59.25) Norie Urabe   (2:00.78) Ai Shibata   (1:57.85) Haruka Ueda   (2:00.16) 7:58.04 7th Sweden Ida Marko-Varga   (1:59.62) Josefin Lillhage   (1:58.74) Gabriella Fagundez   (2:01.61) Petra Granlund   (2:02.37) 8:02.34 8th Netherlands Inge Dekker   (1:58.88) Manon van Rooijen   (2:02.63) Femke Heemskerk   (2:01.40) Linda Bank   (2:01.90) 8:04.81

Preliminaries Rank Nation Swimmers Time Note 1 Australia Linda Mackenzie   (2:00.35) Stephanie Rice   (1:59.40) Lara Davenport   (1:58.51) Bronte Barratt   (1:59.24) 7:57.50 Q Olympic 2 Germany Petra Dallmann   (2:00.54) Daniela Samulski   (2:01.09) Meike Freitag   (1:58.58) Annika Lurz   (1:58.55) 7:58.76 Q Olympic 3 France Alena Popchanka   (1:59.00) Sophie Huber   (1:59.08) Céline Couderc   (2:00.92) Aurore Mongel   (2:00.48) 7:59.48 Q Olympic 4 Japan Maki Mita   (1:59.88) Norie Urabe   (2:00.78) Ai Shibata   (1:58.38) Haruka Ueda   (2:00.54) 7:59.58 Q Olympic 5 Great Britain Joanne Jackson   (2:00.14) Melanie Marshall   (1:59.29) Julia Beckett   (2:01.06) Caitlin McClatchey   (1:59.85) 8:00.34 Q Olympic 6 Netherlands Manon van Rooijen   (2:02.17) Inge Dekker   (1:58.55) Linda Bank   (2:01.43) Femke Heemskerk   (2:00.25) 8:02.40 Q Olympic 7 Sweden Gabriella Fagundez   (2:01.02) Ida Marko-Varga   (1:58.95) Malin Svahnström   (2:03.52) Josefin Lillhage   (1:59.14) 8:02.63 Q Olympic 8 USA Amanda Weir   (2:03.61) Margaret Hoelzer   (1:59.90) Kara Lynn Joyce   (1:59.00) Lacey Nymeyer   (2:00.36) 8:02.87 Q Olympic 9 China Yang Yu   (1:59.86) Tang Yi   (2:00.30) Tang Jingzhi   (2:01.83) Pang Jiaying   (2:00.99) 8:02.98 Olympic 10 New Zealand Helen Norfolk   (2:00.57) Lauren Boyle   (2:00.37) Alison Fitch   (2:01.62) Melissa Ingram   (2:01.78) 8:04.34 Olympic 11 Canada Brittany Reimer   (2:00.15) Julia Wilkinson   (2:00.45) Erica Morningstar   (2:01.92) Geneviève Saumur   (2:02.30) 8:04.82 Olympic 12 Spain Arantxa Ramos Plasencia   (2:00.56) Maria Fuster Martinez   (2:01.55) Melania Felicitas Costa Schmid   (2:02.94) Erika Villaécija García   (2:01.57) 8:06.62 Olympic 13 Italy Flavia Zoccari   (2:02.88) Francesca Segat   (2:03.11) Renata Fabiola Spagnolo   (2:01.81) Federica Pellegrini   (1:58.84) 8:06.64 14 Denmark Julie Hjorth-Hansen   (2:00.47) Lotte Friis   (2:01.85) Micha Jensen   (2:02.56) Louise Mai Jansen   (2:01.90) 8:06.78 15 Poland Katarzyna Baranowska   (2:04.05) Agata Zqiejska   (2:01.77) Aleksandra Urbanczyk   (2:04.10) Paulina Barzycka   (2:03.21) 8:13.13 16 Romania Camelia Potec   (1:59.22) Valentina Georgiana Brat   (2:07.92) Larisa Lăcustă   (2:07.87) Ionela Cozma   (2:03.34) 8:18.35 17 Hong Kong Hang Yu Sze   (2:09.58) Hannah Wilson   (2:07.67) Carmen Nam   (2:08.50) Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai   (2:04.80) 8:30.55 18 Singapore Quah Ting Wen   (2:07.28) Mylene Ong   (2:07.96) Lynette Lim   (2:07.44) Lynette Ng   (2:08.97) 8:31.65 19 El Salvador Golda Marcus   (2:08.70) Ileana Murillo Argueta   (2:12.51) Ana Guadalupe Hernandez Duarte   (2:15.70) Alexia Pamela Benitez Quijada   (2:11.68) 8:48.59 20 Peru Fiorella Gomez-Sanchez   (2:12.95) Massie Milagros Carillo   (2:12.69) Slavica Pavic   (2:19.72) Maria Alejandra Torres   (2:13.47) 8:58.83 21 Thailand Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn   (2:07.13) Wenika Kaewchaiwong   (2:11.44) Pannika Prachgosin   (2:23.38) Jiratida Phinyosophon   (2:19.99) 9:01.94 22 Macao Cheok Mei Ma   (2:12.34) Weng I Kuan   (2:16.16) Man Wai Fong   (2:21.05) Yih Shiuan Chan   (2:14.00) 9:03.55 23 Uzbekistan Irina Shlemova   (2:16.90) Yulduz Kuchkarova   (2:20.57) Maftunabonu Tuhtasinova   (2:15.62) Ranohon Amanova   (2:19.76) 9:12.85 24 Jordan Miriam Hatamleh   (2:14.86) Layla Alghul   (2:18.36) Hiba Bashouti   (2:18.94) Razan Taha   (2:26.96) 9:19.12 25 India Kshipra Mahajan   (2:21.17) Madhavi Giri Govind   (2:20.47) Parita Parekh   (2:21.35) Pooja Raghava Alva   (2:19.94) 9:22.93

See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

References

Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.