2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay

The women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2018.[1]

Women's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	16 December (heats and final)
Competitors	60 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	1:34.03
Medalists
Madison Kennedy Mallory Comerford Kelsi Dahlia Erika Brown Lia Neal Olivia Smoliga Veronica Burchill    United States   Ranomi Kromowidjojo Femke Heemskerk Kim Busch Valerie van Roon Maaike de Waard    Netherlands   Holly Barratt Emily Seebohm Minna Atherton Carla Buchanan Ariarne Titmus    Australia

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Netherlands	1:33.91	Copenhagen, Denmark	15 December 2017
Championship record	Netherlands	1:34.24	Doha, Qatar	7 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 9:30.[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Netherlands	Femke Heemskerk (23.93) Kim Busch (24.21) Valerie van Roon (24.20) Maaike de Waard (23.99)	1:36.33	Q
2	1	1	United States	Lia Neal (24.45) Olivia Smoliga (23.99) Veronica Burchill (24.44) Erika Brown (23.77)	1:36.65	Q
3	1	5	Australia	Holly Barratt (23.97) Ariarne Titmus (24.71) Minna Atherton (24.61) Carla Buchanan (24.58)	1:37.87	Q
4	1	4	Russia	Rozaliya Nasretdinova (24.84) Arina Surkova (24.18) Daria Kartashova (24.43) Veronika Andrusenko (24.81)	1:38.26	Q
5	2	7	Japan	Aya Sato (24.70) Tomomi Aoki (24.75) Emi Moronuki (24.89) Rika Omoto (24.13)	1:38.47	Q
6	2	5	China	Liu Xiang (24.64) Wu Yue (24.21) Liu Xiaohan (24.72) Wang Jingzhuo (25.16)	1:38.73	Q
7	2	6	Czech Republic	Simona Kubová (25.23) Anika Apostalon (24.28) Barbora Seemanová (24.18) Barbora Závadová (25.35)	1:39.04	Q
8	1	6	Germany	Jessica Steiger (24.84) Marie Pietruschka (24.86) Annika Bruhn (24.84) Reva Foos (24.89)	1:39.43	Q
9	2	3	Hong Kong	Kan Cheuk Tung Natalie (25.28) Sze Hang Yu (24.87) Stephanie Au (24.77) Chan Kin Lok (25.34)	1:40.26
10	1	7	New Zealand	Paige Flynn (25.28) Rebecca Moynihan (24.84) Emma Godwin (24.99) Vanessa Ouwehand (26.17)	1:41.28
11	2	2	Slovakia	Barbora Mikuskova (25.76) Laura Benková (25.87) Tamara Potocká (25.20) Karolina Hájková (25.27)	1:42.10
12	1	3	Turkey	Selen Özbilen (25.38) Aleyna Özkan (26.43) Roza Erdemli (26.28) Ekaterina Avramova (25.00)	1:43.09
13	1	2	Chinese Taipei	Huang Mei-chien (25.77) Chen Szu-an (26.56) Wang Wan-chen (26.48) Lin Pei-wun (26.45)	1:45.26
	2	1	Brazil		DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:00.[3]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	5	United States	Madison Kennedy (24.05) Mallory Comerford (23.28) Kelsi Dahlia (23.37) Erika Brown (23.33)	1:34.03	CR
	4	Netherlands	Ranomi Kromowidjojo (23.60) Femke Heemskerk (23.32) Kim Busch (23.84) Valerie van Roon (23.79)	1:34.55
	3	Australia	Holly Barratt (24.04) Emily Seebohm (24.10) Minna Atherton (24.02) Carla Buchanan (24.18)	1:36.34
4	6	Russia	Maria Kameneva (24.37) Arina Surkova (24.06) Daria Kartashova (24.53) Rozaliya Nasretdinova (24.13)	1:37.09
5	2	Japan	Aya Sato (24.46) Runa Imai (24.27) Rika Omoto (24.07) Tomomi Aoki (24.55)	1:37.35
6	7	China	Liu Xiang (24.59) Wu Yue (23.97) Yang Junxuan (24.32) Liu Xiaohan (24.70)	1:37.58
7	1	Czech Republic	Simona Kubová (25.06) Anika Apostalon (23.91) Barbora Seemanová (23.90) Barbora Závadová (25.37)	1:38.24
8	8	Germany	Jessica Steiger (24.63) Marie Pietruschka (24.73) Annika Bruhn (24.55) Reva Foos (24.79)	1:38.70

References

1. "Competition Schedule". Omega Timing. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
2. Heats results
3. Final results