Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The women's 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships took place on July 26, 2009 at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

The existing records when the event started were:

Record	Swimmer	Time	Location
WR	Inge Dekker (53.77) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.61) Femke Heemskerk (53.62) Marleen Veldhuis (52.62)	3:33.62	Eindhoven 2008
CR	Lisbeth Lenton (53.42) Melanie Schlanger (53.95) Shayne Reese (54.90) Jodie Henry (53.21)	3:35.48	Melbourne 2007

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Netherlands Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Femke Heemskerk Marleen Veldhuis Hinkelien Schreuder*	Germany Britta Steffen Daniela Samulski Petra Dallmann Daniela Schreiber	Australia Lisbeth Trickett Marieke Guehrer Shayne Reese Felicity Galvez Sally Foster* Meagan Nay*

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Germany	Britta Steffen (53.76) Daniela Samulski (53.81) Petra Dallmann (53.69) Daniela Schreiber (53.48)	3:34.74	CR, NR
2	4	4	Netherlands	Femke Heemskerk (53.83) Hinkelien Schreuder (54.93) Inge Dekker (52.97) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.21)	3:34.94
3	2	4	Australia	Sally Foster (54.18) Marieke Guehrer (53.47) Shayne Reese (53.19) Meagan Nay (54.42)	3:35.26
4	3	6	Sweden	Therese Alshammar (54.27) Josefin Lillhage (53.55) Sarah Sjöström (53.14) Gabriella Fagundez (54.35)	3:35.31	NR
5	4	5	China	Li Zhesi (54.27) Zhu Qianwei (54.34) Tang Yi (54.03) Pang Jiaying (54.21)	3:36.85
6	4	3	Great Britain	Fran Halsall (53.02) CR, NR Caitlin McClatchey (54.98) Katherine Wyld (54.80) Amy Smith (54.22)	3:37.02	NR
7	3	4	United States	Julia Smit (54.25) Kate Dwelley (54.65) Caitlin Geary (54.59) Christine Magnuson (53.63)	3:37.12
8	3	2	Hungary	Eszter Dara (55.29) Evelyn Verrasztó (53.90) Ágnes Mutina (54.28) Katinka Hosszú (54.17)	3:37.64	NR
9	3	3	Canada	Victoria Poon (54.70) Erica Morningstar (54.84) Geneviève Saumur (53.89) Heather MacLean (54.79)	3:38.22	NR
10	2	5	France	Aurore Mongel (54.77) Hanna Shcherba (54.66) Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne (55.44) Malia Metella (53.79)	3:38.66
11	2	3	Japan	Haruka Ueda (54.88) NR Hanae Ito (55.00) Yayoi Matsumoto (54.98) Misaki Yamaguchi (54.03)	3:38.89	NR
12	2	6	Russia	Olga Klyuchnikova (54.88) NR Victoriya Andreeva (54.79) Maria Ugolkova (55.56) Anastasia Aksenova (55.25)	3:40.48	NR
13	4	6	Italy	Renata Fabiola Spagnolo (55.68) Laura Letrari (54.68) Erica Buratto (55.19) Silvia Di Pietro (55.52)	3:41.07
14	3	7	Belarus	Yulia Khitraya (56.59) Aleksandra Gerasimenya (53.75) Svetlana Khokhlova (55.44) Iryna Niafedava (56.74)	3:42.52
15	4	1	Finland	Linda Laihorinne (56.63) Emilia Pikkarainen (56.50) Riia-Rosa Koskelainen (56.02) Hanna-Maria Seppälä (53.83)	3:42.98
16	2	7	Slovakia	Katarina Listopadova (57.14) Katarina Filova (55.27) Miroslava Syllabova (56.44) Martina Moravcová (54.78)	3:43.63
17	2	0	Belgium	Nina Van Koeckhoven (56.67) Sascha Van den Branden (56.49) Annelies de Mare (56.12) Jolien Sysmans (55.37)	3:44.65	NR
18	2	2	Ireland	Fiona Doyle (56.57) NR Clare Dawson (56.16) Niamh O'Sullivan (57.38) Melanie Nocher (57.10)	3:47.21	NR
19	4	2	Singapore	Quah Ting Wen (56.14) Amanda Lim (56.26) Mylene Ong (57.46) Lynette Lim (57.68)	3:47.54
20	3	1	Bahamas	Alana Dillette (57.11) Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace (54.85) Teisha Lightbourne (58.52) Alicia Lightbourne (57.86)	3:48.34	NR
21	4	7	Venezuela	Arlene Semeco (55.98) Jeserick Pinto (57.83) Ximena Vilar (57.06) Yennifer Marquez (58.28)	3:49.15	NR
22	1	5	Ukraine	Dar'ya Stepanyuk (55.43) Oksana Serikova (56.38) Kseniya Grygorenko (59.82) Daryna Zevina (57.63)	3:49.26
23	2	1	Lithuania	Rugile Mileisyte (56.94) Grite Apanaviciute (58.16) Raminta Dvariskyte (1:00.71) Aiste Dobrovolskaite (59.16)	3:54.97	NR
24	4	9	Malta	Nicol Cremona (1:02.14) Melinda Sue Micallef (59.71) Davina Mangion (1:00.80) Talisa Pace (1:00.34)	4:02.99
25	4	8	Macau	Ma Cheok Mei (1:00.64) Tan Chi Yan (1:01.35) Fong Man Wai (1:01.07) Che Lok In (1:01.69)	4:04.75
26	3	8	India	Chittaranjan Shubha (1:00.68) Murugaperumal Mercy Venpa (1:06.93) Pooja Raghava Alva (1:03.86) Talasha Prabhu (1:00.94)	4:15.41
27	2	8	Senegal	Binta Zahra Diop (1:01.79) Ouleye Diallo (1:04.66) Mareme Faye (1:07.01) Khadidiatou Dieng (1:01.96)	4:15.42	NR
28	1	4	Mozambique	Monica Bernardo (1:03.18) Jessika Cossa (1:05.56) Faina Salate (1:04.04) Gessica Stagno (1:05.12)	4:17.90
29	4	0	Albania	Sara Abdullahu (1:00.36) Reni Jani (1:09.79) Debora Keci (1:06.78) Rovena Marku (1:04.30)	4:21.23
30	3	0	Pakistan	Kiran Khan (1:08.30) Aqsa Tariq (1:13.55) Rida Mitha (1:11.34) Mahnoor Moqsood (1:09.82)	4:43.01
–	1	3	Zimbabwe	Moira Fraser (58.74) Kirsten Lapham Kimberley Eeson Nicole Horn	DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Note
	5	Netherlands	Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Femke Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78)	3:31.72	WR
	4	Germany	Britta Steffen (52.22) WR Daniela Samulski (53.49) Petra Dallmann (53.75) Daniela Schreiber (52.37)	3:31.83	NR
	3	Australia	Lisbeth Trickett (52.62) OC Marieke Guehrer (53.60) Shayne Reese (53.25) Felicity Galvez (53.54)	3:33.01	OC
4	1	United States	Amanda Weir (54.47) Dara Torres (53.72) Christine Magnuson (53.86) Dana Vollmer (53.18)	3:35.23
5	6	Sweden	Therese Alshammar (53.58) NR Josefin Lillhage (53.58) Sarah Sjöström (53.62) Gabriella Fagundez (54.57)	3:35.35
6	2	China	Li Zhesi (54.04) Zhu Qianwei (53.73) Tang Yi (54.16) Pang Jiaying (53.70)	3:35.63	AS
7	7	Great Britain	Fran Halsall (53.31) Caitlin McClatchey (54.43) Katherine Wyld (54.74) Amy Smith (54.51)	3:36.99	NR
8	8	Hungary	Eszter Dara (55.09) Evelyn Verrasztó (54.20) Ágnes Mutina (54.74) Katinka Hosszú (55.50)	3:39.53

External links

• Preliminary Results
• Final Results