2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	10 December (heats and final)
Competitors	45 from 10 nations
Teams	10
Winning time	7:33.89 AM
Medalists
Katerine Savard Taylor Ruck Kennedy Goss Penny Oleksiak Alexia Zevnik    Canada   Leah Smith Mallory Comerford Sarah Gibson Madisyn Cox Katie Drabot    United States   Daria Mullakaeva Daria Ustinova Arina Openysheva Veronika Popova Irina Krivonogova    Russia

2016 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 10 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Netherlands	7:32.85	Doha	3 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 12:12.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	8	United States	Mallory Comerford (1:54.63) Sarah Gibson (1:55.46) Katie Drabot (1:56.18) Leah Smith (1:54.98)	7:41.25	Q
2	1	3	China	Zhang Yuhan (1:57.06) Ai Yanhan (1:56.65) Dong Jie (1:56.44) Shen Duo (1:56.10)	7:46.25	Q
3	1	7	Canada	Kennedy Goss (1:55.97) Alexia Zevnik (1:55.87) Taylor Ruck (1:56.79) Penny Oleksiak (1:57.70)	7:46.33	Q
4	1	2	Russia	Daria Mullakaeva (1:56.83) Irina Krivonogova (1:57.97) Daria Ustinova (1:54.92) Arina Openysheva (1:56.67)	7:46.39	Q
5	1	0	Japan	Tomomi Aoki (1:56.14) Chihiro Igarashi (1:56.00) Yui Yamane (1:58.32) Aya Takano (1:57.01)	7:47.47	Q
6	1	9	Australia	Carla Buchanan (1:57.00) Jemma Schlicht (1:57.95) Ariarne Titmus (1:56.71) Kiah Melverton (1:56.95)	7:48.61	Q
7	1	5	Germany	Annika Bruhn (1:56.94) Marlene Huther (1:57.65) Reva Foos (1:56.18) Celine Rieder (1:59.90)	7:48.67	Q, NR
8	1	4	Denmark	Signe Bro (1:57.11) Sarah Bro (1:59.37) Mie Nielsen (1:55.89) Maj Howardsen (1:59.39)	7:51.76	Q
9	1	1	Czech Republic	Barbora Seemanová (1:58.63) Simona Baumrtová (1:57.33) Barbora Závadová (1:58.15) Martina Elhenická (1:58.78)	7:52.89	Q, NR
10	1	6	Macau	Tan Chi Yan (2:07.03) Lei On Kei (2:10.06) Choi Weng Tong (2:13.81) Long Chi Wai (2:11.10)	8:42.00	Q, NR

Final

The final was held at 20:18.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	3	Canada	Katerine Savard (1:55.53) Taylor Ruck (1:51.69) Kennedy Goss (1:54.62) Penny Oleksiak (1:52.05)	7:33.89	AM
	4	United States	Leah Smith (1:54.87) Mallory Comerford (1:53.32) Sarah Gibson (1:55.43) Madisyn Cox (1:55.03)	7:38.65
	6	Russia	Daria Mullakaeva (1:57.53) Daria Ustinova (1:55.13) Arina Openysheva (1:54.83) Veronika Popova (1:52.44)	7:39.93	NR
4	7	Australia	Brittany Elmslie (1:54.83) Carla Buchanan (1:54.65) Ariarne Titmus (1:55.14) Kiah Melverton (1:55.38)	7:40.00
5	2	Japan	Tomomi Aoki (1:56.49) Chihiro Igarashi (1:54.93) Aya Takano (1:56.73) Rikako Ikee (1:53.82)	7:41.97	NR
6	5	China	Zhang Yuhan (1:56.50) Ai Yanhan (1:55.77) Dong Jie (1:56.53) Shen Duo (1:53.29)	7:42.09
7	1	Germany	Annika Bruhn (1:56.79) Reva Foos (1:55.17) Marlene Huther (1:57.14) Celine Rieder (1:59.12)	7:48.22	NR
8	8	Denmark	Signe Bro (1:57.10) Mie Nielsen (1:55.15) Sarah Bro (1:58.37) Maj Howardsen (1:59.33)	7:49.95

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