Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Centre,
Paris La Défense Arena
Dates27 July 2024
(Heats and Final)
Competitors23 from 17 nations
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The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held on 27 July at the Paris Aquatics Centre.[1] 23 Swimmers will take part.


Records

Prior to this competition, the existing records were as follows.

Record Time Name Nation Event Date Notes
World 3:55.38 Ariana Titmus  Australia 2023 Worlds 23July 2023 [2] [3]
Olympic 3:56.46 Katie Ledecky  United States 2016 Rio di Janeiro 1 August 2016


Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).[4][5]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.[4]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.[6]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Women's events
Event OQT* OCT^
400 m freestyle 4:07.90ª 4:09.14

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)[1]

Date Time Round
July 27 2024 10:00 Heats
17:30 Final

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
Agostina Hein  Argentina
Jamie Ann Perkins  Australia
Ariarne Titmus  Australia
Valentine Dumont  Belgium
Maria Fernanda De Oliveira Da Silva Costa  Brazil
Gabrielle Roncatto  Brazil
Mary-Sophie Harvey  Canada
Summer McIntosh  Canada
Bingjie Li  China
Yaxin Liu  China
Anastasiia Kirpichnikova  France
Isabel Gose  Germany
Leonie Martens  Germany
Ajna Kesely  Hungary
Natalia Jean Kuipers  Virgin Islands
Simona Quadarella  Italy
Karin Belbeisi  Jordan
Waka Kobori  Japan
Erika Fairweather  New Zealand
Eve Thomas  New Zealand
Katie Ledecky  United States
Paige Madden  United States
Anastasiya Zelinskaya  Uzbekistan

Final

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ^ a b "Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Schedule". Paris 2024.
  2. ^ "Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinals Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Video - Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinals". World Aquatics. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  5. ^ Rieder, David (3 April 2022). "Event Changes Likely as Paris 2024 Moves to Nine-Day Schedule of Finals". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  6. ^ "Paris 2024 - Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 3 October 2022.