The Women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 2 August with the heats and the final.Start list

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

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 2 August Final Katie Ledecky 3:59.13 CR

Results

Heats The heats were held at 11:03.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Katie Ledecky 4:01.73 Q 2 5 6 Jessica Ashwood 4:04.47 Q 3 5 5 Sharon van Rouwendaal 4:05.02 Q 4 4 5 Lauren Boyle 4:05.53 Q 5 5 7 Boglárka Kapás 4:06.21 Q 6 4 4 Jazmin Carlin 4:07.15 Q 6 4 6 Diletta Carli 4:07.15 Q 8 5 1 Melania Costa 4:07.58 Q 9 5 3 Cierra Runge 4:07.97 10 4 9 Anja Klinar 4:08.57 11 5 8 Shao Yiwen 4:08.93 12 4 1 Sarah Köhler 4:09.21 13 5 2 Cao Yue 4:09.60 14 4 3 Coralie Balmy 4:09.68 15 4 8 Andreina Pinto 4:09.75 16 3 5 Manuella Lyrio 4:10.57 NR 17 4 2 Alice Mizzau 4:10.92 18 3 4 Arina Openysheva 4:11.71 19 5 9 Johanna Friedrich 4:12.09 20 4 0 Chihiro Igarashi 4:13.43 21 4 7 Leah Neale 4:13.98 22 5 0 Emily Overholt 4:14.45 23 3 7 Julia Hassler 4:14.51 24 2 1 María Álvarez 4:14.60 NR 25 3 8 Monique Olivier 4:15.24 26 3 2 Jo Hyun-ju 4:15.39 27 2 6 Martina van Berkel 4:15.83 28 3 3 Emma Robinson 4:16.43 29 3 1 Claudia Hufnagl 4:17.14 30 2 7 Martina Elhenická 4:18.57 31 2 2 Khoo Cai Lin 4:18.75 32 2 4 Andrea Cedrón 4:18.96 33 2 3 Rachel Tseng 4:19.97 34 3 6 Samantha Arévalo 4:20.47 35 2 0 Katarina Simonović 4:20.94 36 2 5 Elisbet Gámez 4:21.36 37 2 8 Merve Eroğlu 4:24.77 38 1 5 Daniella van den Berg 4:24.79 39 3 0 Gabriela Santis 4:25.92 40 1 2 Helena Moreno 4:26.87 41 1 4 Lani Cabrera 4:28.31 42 1 3 Elena Giovannini 4:29.40 43 1 6 Sara Pastrana 4:32.58 44 2 9 Talita Te Flan 4:32.72 45 1 7 Gabriella Doueihy 4:35.09 46 3 9 Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn 4:36.55 47 1 1 Arianna Sanna 4:39.87 48 1 0 Victoria Chentsova 4:44.15 49 1 8 Makaela Holowchak 4:47.77

Final

The final was held at 18:23.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Katie Ledecky 3:59.13 CR 3 Sharon van Rouwendaal 4:03.02 NR 5 Jessica Ashwood 4:03.34 OC 4 7 Jazmin Carlin 4:03.74 5 6 Lauren Boyle 4:04.38 6 8 Melania Costa 4:06.50 7 1 Diletta Carli 4:07.30 8 2 Boglárka Kapás 4:08.22

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