Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The women's 4×200 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 28. The heats and final were held on July 28.

Women's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 28, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors	71 from 17 nations
Winning time	7:46.14
Medalists
Missy Franklin Dagny Knutson Katie Hoff Allison Schmitt    United States   Bronte Barratt Blair Evans Angie Bainbridge Kylie Palmer    Australia   Chen Qian Pang Jiaying Liu Jing Tang Yi    China
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Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Yang Yu (1:55.47) Zhu Qianwei (1:55.79) Liu Jing (1:56.09) Pang Jiaying (1:54.73)	China	7:42.08	Rome	July 30, 2009

Results

Heats

17 teams participated in 3 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	3	4	United States	Missy Franklin (1:56.98) Katie Hoff (1:57.01) Jasmine Tosky (1:59.20) Dagny Knutson (1:57.27)	7:50.46	Q
2	1	5	Canada	Julia Wilkinson (1:58.49) Brittany MacLean (1:58.33) Samantha Cheverton (1:58.34) Barbara Jardin (1:56.89)	7:52.05	Q
3	1	4	Hungary	Ágnes Mutina (1:58.12) Evelyn Verrasztó (1:58.14) Katinka Hosszú (1:58.57) Zsuzsanna Jakabos (1:57.29)	7:52.12	Q
4	2	4	China	Chen Qian (1:58.49) Zhu Qianwei (1:58.78) Liu Jing (1:58.31) Pang Jiaying (1:57.63)	7:53.21	Q
5	3	3	Great Britain	Joanne Jackson (1:58.88) Rebecca Turner (1:59.04) Hannah Miley (1:59.05) Caitlin McClatchey (1:58.68)	7:55.65	Q
6	3	5	Australia	Angie Bainbridge (1:58.84) Blair Evans (1:57.33) Jade Neilsen (2:00.42) Bronte Barratt (1:59.09)	7:55.68	Q
7	2	5	France	Coralie Balmy (1:58.31) Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne (2:00.62) Charlotte Bonnet (1:58.40) Camille Muffat (1:58.56)	7:55.89	Q
8	1	6	New Zealand	Lauren Boyle (1:57.74) Penelope May Marshall (2:00.68) Amaka Gessler (1:59.67) Natasha Hind (1:59.06)	7:57.15	Q, NR
9	2	3	Japan	Haruka Ueda (1:58.36) Hanae Ito (1:58.04) Yayoi Matsumoto (1:59.22) Misaki Yamaguchi (2:02.20)	7:57.82
10	1	3	Germany	Silke Lippok (1:58.04) Lisa Vitting (1:59.14) Daniela Schreiber (1:59.84) Franziska Jansen (2:01.72)	7:58.74
11	3	6	Russia	Veronika Popova (1:57.86) Elena Sokolova (2:00.29) Viktoriya Andreeva (2:00.21) Kira Volodina (2:01.33)	7:59.69
12	2	6	Sweden	Ida Marko-Varga (2:00.33) Gabriella Fagundez (2:03.15) Sarah Sjöström (1:57.84) Stina Gardell (2:00.98)	8:02.30
13	2	2	Italy	Alice Mizzau (2:01.88) Federica Pellegrini (1:58.08) Alice Nesti (2:00.40) Renata Spagnolo (2:02.33)	8:02.69
14	1	7	Ukraine	Valeriya Podlesna (2:02.56) Darya Stepanyuk (2:00.86) Ganna Dzerkal (2:02.93) Daryna Zevyna (2:00.07)	8:06.42	NR
15	1	2	Austria	Joerdis Steinegger (1:59.58) Birgit Koschischek (2:01.77) Eva Chavez-Diaz (2:02.58) Nina Dittrich (2:00.74)	8:06.67
16	2	7	Ireland	Sycerika McMahon (2:00.88) Melanie Nocher (2:01.28) Clare Dawson (2:02.07) Gráinne Murphy (2:03.43)	8:07.66	NR
17	3	7	Mexico	Charetzeni Susana Escobar (2:04.17) Liliana Ibanez (2:01.87) Patricia Castañeda (2:06.16) Rita Medrano (2:03.83)	8:16.03
–	3	2	South Korea		DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:43.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	United States	Missy Franklin (1:55.06) Dagny Knutson (1:57.18) Katie Hoff (1:57.41) Allison Schmitt (1:56.49)	7:46.14
	7	Australia	Bronte Barratt (1:56.86) Blair Evans (1:57.69) Angie Bainbridge (1:57.36) Kylie Palmer (1:55.51)	7:47.42
	6	China	Chen Qian (1:57.37) Pang Jiaying (1:56.97) Liu Jing (1:57.85) Tang Yi (1:55.47)	7:47.66
4	1	France	Camille Muffat (1:57.83) Coralie Balmy (1:58.00) Charlotte Bonnet (1:58.83) Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne (1:57.56)	7:52.22
5	3	Hungary	Ágnes Mutina (1:57.89) Evelyn Verrasztó (1:58.49) Katinka Hosszú (1:58.98) Zsuzsanna Jakabos (1:57.03)	7:52.39
6	2	Great Britain	Joanne Jackson (1:57.92) Rebecca Turner (1:58.37) Hannah Miley (1:58.74) Caitlin McClatchey (1:58.48)	7:53.51
7	5	Canada	Barbara Jardin (1:58.27) Julia Wilkinson (1:59.37) Samantha Cheverton (1:58.45) Brittany MacLean (1:57.53)	7:53.62
8	8	New Zealand	Lauren Boyle (1:58.10) Amaka Gessler (1:59.41) Penelope May Marshall (2:00.42) Natasha Hind (1:58.62)	7:56.55	NR

References

1. "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4x200 metre freestyle relay (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
2. (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2011-07-28.

External links

• World Aquatics Championships: Women's 4×200 metre freestyle relay entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.
• , Swimming World Magazine (2011-07-28); retrieved 2011-08-09.