2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400m Individual Medley at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates	12 December (heats and final)
Winning time	4:23.14
Medalists
Hannah Miley   Great Britain   Ye Shiwen   China   Katinka Hosszú   Hungary

Main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 12 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Julia Smit	United States	4:21.04	Manchester	18 December 2009
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	4:24.21	Dubai	15 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
12 December	Final	Hannah Miley	United Kingdom	4:23.14	CR

Results

Heats

25 swimmers participated in 3 heats.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Hannah Miley (GBR)	4:28.91	Q
2	2	4	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	4:29.22	Q
3	3	5	Ye Shiwen (CHN)	4:29.98	Q
4	1	4	Zsuzsanna Jakabos (HUN)	4:30.88	Q
5	2	5	Miho Takahashi (JPN)	4:31.71	Q
6	3	3	Emu Higuchi (JPN)	4:32.49	Q
7	1	2	Madeline Dirado (USA)	4:33.01	Q
8	1	5	Barbora Závadová (CZE)	4:34.67	Q
9	1	6	Rebecca Mann (USA)	4:34.70
10	2	3	Jessica Pengelly (RSA)	4:37.66
11	3	6	Ellen Fullerton (AUS)	4:37.84
12	1	0	Qiao Qiao (CHN)	4:38.93
13	3	7	Stefania Pirozzi (ITA)	4:40.04
14	2	6	Kristina Krasyukova (RUS)	4:40.19
14	2	7	Wendy van der Zanden (NED)	4:40.19
16	3	1	Rene Warnes (RSA)	4:40.45
17	1	3	Jördis Steinegger (AUT)	4:42.14
18	2	8	Samantha Arévalo (ECU)	4:42.22	NR
19	3	2	Karolina Szczepaniak (POL)	4:45.45
20	1	7	Céline Bertrand (SWE)	4:45.66
21	1	1	Virginia Bardach (ARG)	4:50.85
22	2	0	Marina García Urzainqui (ESP)	4:52.29
23	3	8	Monalisa Arieswati Lorenza (INA)	5:00.97
24	3	0	Anum Bandey (PAK)	5:24.51
	2	1	Chan Kin Lok (HKG)	DSQ
	1	8	Elodie Poo Cheong (MRI)	DNS
	2	2	Anja Klinar (SLO)	DNS

Final

The final was held at 20:16.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:23.14	CR, ER
	3	Ye Shiwen	China	4:23.33
	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:25.95
4	6	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	4:26.99
5	1	Madeline Dirado	United States	4:28.55
6	2	Miho Takahashi	Japan	4:31.55
7	7	Emu Higuchi	Japan	4:35.59
8	8	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	4:37.30

External links

• 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m): Women's 400 metre medley entry list Archived 2013-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, from OmegaTiming.com.