Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 24, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors	61 from 14 nations
Winning time	3:33.96
Medalists
Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Marleen Veldhuis Femke Heemskerk Maud Van der Meer (heats only)    Netherlands   Natalie Coughlin Missy Franklin Jessica Hardy Dana Vollmer    United States   Britta Steffen Silke Lippok Lisa Vitting Daniela Schreiber    Germany

The women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24. The heats and final took place July 24.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Femke Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78)	Netherlands	3:31.72	Rome	July 26, 2009

Results

Heats

14 teams participated in 2 heats, qualified teams are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	4	United States	Amanda Weir (54.35) Missy Franklin (53.57) Kara Lynn Joyce (54.10) Jessica Hardy (53.62)	3:35.64	Q
2	1	2	Netherlands	Marleen Veldhuis (54.41) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.66) Maud Van der Meer (54.70) Femke Heemskerk (52.99)	3:35.76	Q
3	2	5	China	Li Zhesi (54.47) Wang Shijia (54.60) Pang Jiaying (54.47) Tang Yi (53.60)	3:37.14	Q
4	1	5	Germany	Britta Steffen (54.86) Silke Lippok (54.23) Lisa Vitting (54.66) Daniela Schreiber (53.53)	3:37.28	Q
5	1	4	Australia	Kelly Stubbins (54.96) Merindah Dingjan (54.36) Yolane Kukla (55.06) Marieke Guehrer (53.97)	3:38.35	Q
6	1	3	Canada	Victoria Poon (54.79) Erica Morningstar (55.24) Chantal van Landeghem (54.33) Geneviève Saumur (54.44)	3:38.80	Q
7	2	3	Japan	Yayoi Matsumoto (54.82) Haruka Ueda (54.13) Hanae Ito (54.75) Natsuki Hasegawa (55.58)	3:39.28	Q
8	1	7	Denmark	Pernille Blume (54.82) Mie Nielsen (55.35) Lotte Friis (55.99) Jeanette Ottesen (53.32)	3:39.48	Q, NR
9	2	6	Great Britain	Amy Smith (54.98) Francesca Halsall (53.35) Caitlin McClatchey (55.82) Rebecca Turner (55.59)	3:39.74
10	1	6	Sweden	Ida Marko-Varga (55.45) Gabriella Fagundez (54.31) Michelle Coleman (54.56) Petra Granlund (56.13)	3:40.45
11	2	2	Russia	Veronika Popova (54.95) Margarita Nesterova (55.12) Natalya Lovtsova (55.83) Elena Sokolova (54.83)	3:40.73
12	2	7	Belarus	Aleksandra Gerasimenya (54.14) Sviatlana Khakhlova (55.55) Yana Parakhouskaya (57.38) Yulia Khitraya (56.34)	3:43.41
13	2	8	Brazil	Tatiana Lemos (55.68) Daynara de Paula (56.38) Flávia Delaroli (56.73) Michelle Lenhardt (55.83)	3:44.62
14	2	1	New Zealand	Natasha Hind (55.49) Amaka Gessler (55.00) Sophia Batchelor (58.82) Penelope May Marshall (55.68)	3:44.99

Final

The final was held at 19:10.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Netherlands	Inge Dekker (54.91) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.26) Marleen Veldhuis (53.33) Femke Heemskerk (52.46)	3:33.96
02 !	4	United States	Natalie Coughlin (54.09) Missy Franklin (52.99) Jessica Hardy (54.12) Dana Vollmer (53.27)	3:34.47
03 !	6	Germany	Britta Steffen (54.51) Silke Lippok (54.17) Lisa Vitting (53.85) Daniela Schreiber (53.12)	3:36.05
4	3	China	Li Zhesi (54.35) Wang Shijia (54.53) Pang Jiaying (54.36) Tang Yi (53.12)	3:36.36
5	2	Australia	Bronte Barratt (54.81) Marieke Guehrer (54.37) Merindah Dingjan (54.14) Alicia Coutts (53.43)	3:36.75
6	7	Canada	Victoria Poon (54.74) Geneviève Saumur (55.47) Chantal van Landeghem (53.76) Julia Wilkinson (54.45)	3:38.42
7	1	Japan	Haruka Ueda (54.98) Yayoi Matsumoto (54.00) Hanae Ito (54.94) Natsuki Hasegawa (55.63)	3:39.55
8	8	Denmark	Pernille Blume (54.63) Mie Nielsen (55.23) Jeanette Ottesen (53.76) Lotte Friis (56.12)	3:39.74

References

External links

• World Aquatics Championships: Women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.