Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

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Records

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

World record	Template:Flagathlete	4:06.28	West Berlin	24 August 1978
Olympic record	Template:FlagIOCathlete	4:08.76	Moscow, Soviet Union	22 July 1980

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
31 July	Final A	Tiffany Cohen	Template:FlagIOC	4:07.10	Template:OlyR

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Tiffany Cohen	Template:FlagIOC	4:11.49	Q
2	4	5	Sarah Hardcastle	Template:FlagIOC	4:11.55	Q, NR
3	3	4	Kim Linehan	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.08	Q
4	3	3	Anna McVann	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.21	Q
5	2	4	June Croft	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.51	Q
6	2	3	Julie Daigneault	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.60	Q
7	2	5	Jolande van der Meer	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.65	Q
8	4	3	Birgit Kowalczik	Template:FlagIOC	4:17.92	Q
9	3	6	Ann Linder	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.28	q
10	1	6	Monica Olmi	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.70	q
11	1	5	Carla Lasi	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.90	q
12	1	4	Ina Beyermann	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.94	q, WD
13	4	6	Donna McGinnis	Template:FlagIOC	4:19.48	q
14	4	2	Chikako Nakamori	Template:FlagIOC	4:20.13	q, NR
15	3	5	Susie Baumer	Template:FlagIOC	4:20.69	q
16	3	7	Lisa Ann Wen	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.30	q
17	2	2	Irma Huerta	Template:FlagIOC	4:25.13	q
18	3	2	Nadia Krüger	Template:FlagIOC	4:28.20
19	2	6	Junko Sakurai	Template:FlagIOC	4:28.68
20	1	3	Sofia Dara	Template:FlagIOC	4:31.76
21	1	2	Hadar Rubinstein	Template:FlagIOC	4:34.95
22	4	1	Carol Ann Heavey	Template:FlagIOC	4:36.07
23	3	1	Karen Slowing-Aceituno	Template:FlagIOC	4:36.87
24	1	7	Chang Hui-chien	Template:FlagIOC	4:42.47
25	4	7	Fenella Ng	Template:FlagIOC	4:43.41
Template:Hs	2	7	Faten Ghattas	Template:FlagIOC	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	7	Susie Baumer	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.46
10	6	Donna McGinnis	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.59
11	4	Ann Linder	Template:FlagIOC	4:17.55
12	3	Carla Lasi	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.57
13	5	Monica Olmi	Template:FlagIOC	4:19.22
14	2	Chikako Nakamori	Template:FlagIOC	4:20.18
15	1	Lisa Ann Wen	Template:FlagIOC	4:21.61
16	8	Irma Huerta	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.34

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
Script error: No such module "sort".	4	Tiffany Cohen	Template:FlagIOC	4:07.10	Template:OlyR
Script error: No such module "sort".	5	Sarah Hardcastle	Template:FlagIOC	4:10.27	NR
Script error: No such module "sort".	2	June Croft	Template:FlagIOC	4:11.49
4	3	Kim Linehan	Template:FlagIOC	4:12.26
5	6	Anna McVann	Template:FlagIOC	4:13.95
6	1	Jolande van der Meer	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.05
7	8	Birgit Kowalczik	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.33
8	7	Julie Daigneault	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.41

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