2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	5 December
Competitors	64 from 16 nations
Winning time	3:26.53
Medalists
Inge Dekker Femke Heemskerk Maud van der Meer Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands   Natalie Coughlin Abbey Weitzeil Madison Kennedy Shannon Vreeland   United States   Erika Ferraioli Silvia Di Pietro Aglaia Pezzato Federica Pellegrini   Italy

The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 5 December.

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Netherlands	3:28.22	Amsterdam	19 December 2008
Championship record	Netherlands	3:28.54	Dubai	18 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Nation	Time	Record
5 December	Final	Netherlands	3:26.53	WR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 13:33.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	4	United States	Natalie Coughlin (51.93) Amy Bilquist (53.05) Madison Kennedy (52.52) Amanda Weir (53.52)	3:31.02	Q
2	2	5	Denmark	Mie Nielsen (53.13) Julie Levisen (53.79) Pernille Blume (53.29) Jeanette Ottesen (52.74)	3:32.95	Q
3	2	6	Italy	Silvia Di Pietro (53.39) Erika Ferraioli (53.15) Alice Mizzau (54.29) Federica Pellegrini (52.82)	3:33.65	Q
4	1	5	China	Qiu Yuhan (53.24) Tang Yi (53.18) Shen Duo (53.47) Zhang Yufei (54.23)	3:34.12	Q
5	2	7	Brazil	Larissa Oliveira (53.48) Daynara de Paula (53.42) Daiane Oliveira (53.90) Alessandra Marchioro (53.71)	3:34.51	Q, SA
6	2	4	Japan	Miki Uchida (52.71) Yayoi Matsumoto (53.61) Tomomi Aoki (53.78) Rino Hosoda (54.53)	3:34.63	Q
7	2	0	Netherlands	Maud van der Meer (53.39) Esmee Vermeulen (53.63) Rieneke Terink (55.54) Femke Heemskerk (52.32)	3:34.88	Q
8	1	7	Germany	Anna Dietterle (54.60) Annika Bruhn (53.16) Marlene Huther (54.68) Daniela Schreiber (52.91)	3:35.35	Q
9	1	6	Austria	Lena Kreundl (54.34) Birgit Koschischek (53.75) Lisa Zaiser (54.18) Jördis Steinegger (54.59)	3:36.86
10	2	1	Russia	Rozaliya Nasretdinova (54.24) Viktoriya Andreyeva (54.44) Arina Openysheva (54.29) Margarita Nesterova (54.01)	3:36.98
11	2	2	South Africa	Lehesta Kemp (55.83) Erin Gallagher (54.31) Trudi Maree (55.18) Rene Warnes (57.04)	3:42.36
12	2	8	Turkey	İlknur Nihan Çakıcı (56.59) Esra Kübra Kaçmaz (56.85) Sezin Eligul (56.85) Ekaterina Avramova (53.75)	3:44.04
13	1	2	Macau	Tan Chi Yan (58.76) Lei On Kei (58.70) Long Chi Wai (1:00.07) Choi Weng Tong (1:00.70)	3:58.23
14	1	8	India	Anusha Sanjeev Mehta (1:00.96) Malavika Vishwanath (1:00.00) Thalasha Satish Prabhu (59.50) Aditi Dhumatkar (58.12)	3:58.58
15	1	3	Seychelles	Alexus Laird (56.78) Anisha Payet (1:06.22) Maria Marzocchi (1:07.92) Felicity Passon (56.93)	4:07.85
16	1	1	Papua New Guinea	Savannah Tkatchenko (1:01.90) Shanice Paraka (1:03.50) Tegan McCarthy (1:04.60) Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane (58.36)	4:08.36
—	2	3	Sweden		DNS

Final

The final was held at 20:11.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	1	Netherlands	Inge Dekker (52.39) Femke Heemskerk (50.58) Maud van der Meer (52.55) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (51.01)	3:26.53	WR
	4	United States	Natalie Coughlin (52.25) Abbey Weitzeil (51.57) Madison Kennedy (51.82) Shannon Vreeland (52.06)	3:27.70
	3	Italy	Erika Ferraioli (52.70) Silvia Di Pietro (52.30) Aglaia Pezzato (52.72) Federica Pellegrini (51.76)	3:29.48
4	5	Denmark	Jeanette Ottesen (51.91) Julie Levisen (53.26) Mie Nielsen (52.03) Pernille Blume (52.66)	3:29.86
5	6	China	Qiu Yuhan (53.28) Tang Yi (52.64) Shen Duo (52.29) Zhang Yufei (53.57)	3:31.78
6	7	Japan	Miki Uchida (51.83) Yayoi Matsumoto (52.93) Tomomi Aoki (53.67) Rino Hosoda (53.88)	3:32.31
7	2	Brazil	Larissa Oliveira (53.46) Daynara de Paula (53.88) Daiane Oliveira (53.03) Alessandra Marchioro (53.56)	3:33.93	SA
8	8	Germany	Anna Dietterle (54.13) Annika Bruhn (52.84) Marlene Huther (54.38) Daniela Schreiber (53.36)	3:34.71