Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	19 May
Competitors	60 from 13 nations
Winning time	7:51.63
Medalists
Zsuzsanna Jakabos Evelyn Verrasztó Boglárka Kapás Katinka Hosszú    Hungary   Melani Costa Patricia Castro Fatima Gallardo Carapeto Mireia Belmonte    Spain   Andrea Kneppers Esmee Vermeulen Robin Neumann Femke Heemskerk    Netherlands

The Women's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships wiwas ll be held on 19 May 2016.^[1][2]

Records

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

	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	China	7:42.08	Rome	30 July 2009
European record	Great Britain	7:45.51	Rome	30 July 2009
Championship record	Italy	7:50.53	Berlin	21 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:32.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Spain	Patricia Castro (1:58.61) Fatima Gallardo Carapeto (1:59.15) Melani Costa (1:58.44) Africa Zamorano Sanz (2:01.00)	7:57.20	Q
2	1	3	Hungary	Evelyn Verrasztó (1:58.55) Boglárka Kapás (2:01.18) Ajna Késely (1:58.96) Zsuzsanna Jakabos (1:59.25)	7:57.94	Q
3	1	6	Netherlands	Andrea Kneppers (2:00.53) Esmee Vermeulen (1:58.55) Marrit Steenbergen (1:59.98) Robin Neumann (1:59.43)	7:58.49	Q
4	2	2	Italy	Stefania Pirozzi (2:00.80) Martina De Memme (2:00.43) Erica Musso (1:59.24) Alice Mizzau (1:59.05)	7:59.52	Q
5	2	6	Great Britain	Georgia Coates (2:00.10) Camilla Hattersley (1:59.57) Ellie Faulkner (2:00.68) Hannah Miley (1:59.38)	7:59.73	Q
6	1	2	Slovenia	Janja Šegel (1:59.94) Tjasa Pintar (2:00.43) Nastja Govejšek (2:02.56) Anja Klinar (2:00.03)	8:02.96	Q
7	2	3	Sweden	Ida Marko-Varga (2:01.11) Stina Gardell (2:00.81) Louise Hansson (2:01.39) Henriette Stenkvist (2:01.58)	8:04.89	Q
8	1	4	Belgium	Juliette Casini (2:02.73) Lotte Goris (1:59.47) Camille Bouden (2:04.57) Valentine Dumont (2:00.73)	8:07.50	Q
9	1	7	France	Camille Gheorghiu (2:00.93) Margaux Fabre (2:00.72) Mathilde Cini (2:04.39) Cloé Hache (2:01.47)	8:07.51
10	2	4	Switzerland	Noemi Girardet (2:01.48) Maria Ugolkova (2:00.28) Martina van Berkel (2:03.55) Danielle Carmen Villars (2:04.60)	8:09.91
11	2	5	Austria	Lisa Zaiser (2:02.23) Joerdis Steinegger (2:01.70) Claudia Hufnagl (2:03.61) Julia Kukla (2:02.41)	8:09.95
12	2	1	Finland	Hanna-Maria Seppälä (2:05.74) Laura Lajunen (2:09.57) Anniina Ala-Seppälä (2:04.57) Aino Otava (2:06.26)	8:26.14
13	2	7	Poland	Diana Sokołowska (2:01.49) Paula Żukowska Monika Czerniak Wioletta Orczykowska	9:99.99 !DSQ

Final

The final was held at 19:45.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Hungary	Zsuzsanna Jakabos (1:58.60) Evelyn Verrasztó (1:58.16) Boglárka Kapás (1:58.22) Katinka Hosszú (1:56.65)	7:51.63
02 !	4	Spain	Melani Costa (1:58.69) Patricia Castro (1:58.21) Fatima Gallardo Carapeto (1:58.63) Mireia Belmonte (1:57.85)	7:53.38
03 !	3	Netherlands	Andrea Kneppers (2:00.19) Esmee Vermeulen (1:58.53) Robin Neumann (1:59.75) Femke Heemskerk (1:55.16)	7:53.63
4	2	Great Britain	Jazmin Carlin (1:57.83) Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (1:57.46) Hannah Miley (2:00.04) Georgia Coates (1:58.64)	7:53.97
5	6	Italy	Alice Mizzau (1:59.02) Erica Musso (1:59.57) Stefania Pirozzi (1:59.82) Federica Pellegrini (1:56.38)	7:54.79
6	1	Sweden	Sarah Sjöström (1:55.30) Stina Gardell (2:00.59) Louise Hansson (2:00.02) Ida Marko-Varga (1:59.83)	7:55.74
7	8	Belgium	Juliette Casini (2:00.82) Lotte Goris (1:59.26) Kimberly Buys (2:01.91) Valentine Dumont (2:00.68)	8:02.67
8	7	Slovenia	Janja Šegel (2:00.59) Anja Klinar (1:59.73) Tjasa Pintar (1:59.99) Nastja Govejšek (2:02.87)	8:03.18

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