Women's 400-metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	29 July 2001
Competitors	41
Winning time	4 minutes 7.30 seconds
Medalists
Yana Klochkova    Ukraine   Claudia Poll    Costa Rica   Hannah Stockbauer    Germany

The women's 400-metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatic Championships took place 29 July. Both the heats^[1] and final^[2] were held on 29 July.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Janet Evans	United States	4:03.85	Seoul	22 Sep 1988
Championship record	Tracey Wickham	Australia	4:06.28	Berlin	24 Aug 1978

Results

Heats

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	4:11.30	Q
2	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	4:11.83	Q
3	Irina Oufimtseva	Russia	4:11.92	Q
4	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:12.17	Q
5	Chen Hua	China	4:12.19	Q
6	Carla Geurts	Netherlands	4:12.49	Q
7	Alicia Bozon	France	4:12.66	Q
8	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:12.79	Q
9	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	4:12.82
10	Simona Păduraru	Romania	4:13.15
11	Giaan Rooney	Australia	4:13.58
12	Sofie Goffin	Belgium	4:14.80
13	Ashley Chandler	United States	4:14.83
14	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:15.14
15	Nadezhda Chemezova	Russia	4:15.24
16	Éva Risztov	Hungary	4:15.25
17	Jessica Deglau	Canada	4:15.93
18	Yang Yu	China	4:16.17
19	Lidia Elizalde	Spain	4:16.47
20	Laura Roca	Spain	4:17.16
21	Elizabeth Van Welie	New Zealand	4:17.97
22	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	4:18.00
23	Sarah-Jane D'Arcy	Australia	4:18.04
24	Hana Netrefová	Czech Republic	4:18.76
25	Patricia Villareal	Mexico	4:19.00
26	Sophie Simard	Canada	4:19.87
27	Helen Nolfolk	New Zealand	4:20.20
28	Jana Pechanová	Czech Republic	4:20.43
29	Zoi Dimoschaki	Greece	4:20.80
30	Marianna Lymperta	Greece	4:20.90
31	Ivanka Moralieva	Bulgaria	4:21.79
32	Eri Yamanoi	Japan	4:22.53
33	Chantal Strasser	Switzerland	4:22.87
34	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	4:25.47
35	Fabiana Susini	Italy	4:25.95
36	Lin Chi-Chan	Chinese Taipei	4:26.26
37	U-Nice Chan	Singapore	4:35.44
38	Christel Bouvron	Singapore	4:37.38
39	Xenavee Pangelinan	Northern Mariana Islands	4:45.21
40	Lee Huei-Yun	Chinese Taipei	4:47.13
41	Shun Kwan Andrea Chum	Macau	4:47.20
–	Flavia Rigamonti	Switzerland	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	4:07.30
	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:09.15
	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	4:09.36
4	Irina Oufimtseva	Russia	4:10.17
5	Chen Hua	China	4:10.37
6	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:11.67
7	Carla Geurts	Netherlands	4:13.04
8	Alicia Bozon	France	4:15.21

Key: WR = World record

References