# Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 1 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events. Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each swimmer had to swim four lengths of the pool.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Australia (AUS)Mollie O'Callaghan (1:53.66)Shayna Jack (1:55.63)Brianna Throssell (1:55.80)Ariarne Titmus (1:52.41) | 7:37.50 | Fukuoka, Japan | 27 July 2023 |
| Olympic record | China (CHN)Yang Junxuan (1:54.37)Tang Muhan (1:55.00)Zhang Yufei (1:55.66)Li Bingjie (1:55.30) | 7:40.33 | Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 2021 |
The following record was established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 1 August | Final | Mollie O'Callaghan (1:53.52) Lani Pallister (1:55.61) Brianna Throssell (1:56.00) Ariarne Titmus (1:52.95) | Australia | 7:38.08 | OR |

## Qualification

For the relays, a maximum of 16 qualifying teams in each event must be permitted to accumulate a total of 112 relay teams; each NOC may enter only one team. The top three teams in each relay race at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan will directly book a slot for their corresponding event at the Olympics, while the remaining thirteen vying for qualification per relay race must attain their best time from the heats and finals at the combined 2023 and 2024 meet in Doha.

## Competition format

The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The teams with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round (final).

## Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
| Date | Time | Round |
| 1 August 2024 | 10:00 | Heats |
| 1 August 2024 | 20:30 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

Results :
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Australia Lani Pallister (1:55.74) Jamie Perkins (1:56.78) Brianna Throssell (1:55.82) Shayna Jack (1:57.29) | 7:45.63 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Hungary Nikolett Pádár (1:57.82) Lilla Minna Ábrahám (1:57.48) Ajna Késely (1:58.97) Panna Ugrai (1:57.98) | 7:52.25 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | China Tang Muhan (1:59.31) Kong Yaqi (1:59.33) Ge Chutong (1:57.88) Liu Yaxin (1:55.84) | 7:52.36 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | United States Anna Peplowski (1:57.98) Erin Gemmell (1:56.77) Simone Manuel (1:58.50) Alex Shackell (1:59.47) | 7:52.72 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 3 | Brazil Maria Fernanda Costa (1:56.89) Stephanie Balduccini (1:57.93) Maria Paula Heitmann (1:59.43) Gabrielle Roncatto (1:58.56) | 7:52.81 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Canada Emma O'Croinin (2:00.27) Ella Jansen (1:58.25) Julie Brousseau (1:57.93) Mary-Sophie Harvey (1:56.58) | 7:53.03 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 5 | Great Britain Freya Anderson (1:57.31) Abbie Wood (1:57.15) Lucy Hope (1:59.29) Medi Harris (1:59.74) | 7:53.49 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | New Zealand Erika Fairweather (1:56.04) Eve Thomas (1:59.29) Caitlin Deans (1:59.11) Laticia-Leigh Transom (1:59.93) | 7:54.37 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | Italy Sofia Morini (1:58.26) Giulia D'Innocenzo (1:58.43) Matilde Biagiotti (1:59.23) Giulia Ramatelli (1:59.37) | 7:55.29 | |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | Germany Isabel Gose (1:58.63) Nicole Maier (1:58.76) Julia Mrozinski (1:59.64) Nele Schulze (1:58.54) | 7:55.57 | |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Israel Anastasia Gorbenko (1:58.30) Daria Golovaty (1:58.02) Ayla Spitz (2:01.02) Lea Polonsky (1:58.65) | 7:55.99 | |
| 12 | 2 | 6 | Netherlands Janna van Kooten [de] (1:59.86) Imani de Jong [nl] (2:00.74) Silke Holkenborg [nl] (2:00.19) Marrit Steenbergen (1:56.79) | 7:57.58 | |
| 13 | 1 | 2 | Japan Nagisa Ikemoto (1:58.68) Waka Kobori (1:58.53) Hiroko Makino (2:00.68) Rio Shirai (2:01.21) | 7:59.10 | |
| 14 | 1 | 7 | France Lucile Tessariol (2:00.01) Assia Touati (2:00.11) Marina Jehl (1:59.61) Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (2:00.25) | 7:59.98 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Spain María Daza (2:01.42) Alba Herrero (1:59.43) Paula Juste (1:59.54) Ainhoa Campabadal (1:59.84) | 8:00.23 | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | Turkey Gizem Güvenç (1:59.72) Ela Naz Özdemir (2:00.99) Ecem Dönmez (2:01.55) Zehra Bilgin (2:02.92) | 8:05.18 | |

### Final

Results :
| Rank | Lane | Team | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Australia Mollie O'Callaghan (1:53.52) Lani Pallister (1:55.61) Brianna Throssell (1:56.00) Ariarne Titmus (1:52.95) | 7:38.08 | OR |
| | 6 | United States Claire Weinstein (1:54.88) Paige Madden (1:55.65) Katie Ledecky (1:54.93) Erin Gemmell (1:55.40) | 7:40.86 | |
| | 3 | China Yang Junxuan (1:54.52) Li Bingjie (1:55.05) Ge Chutong (1:57.45) Liu Yaxin (1:55.32) | 7:42.34 | |
| 4 | 7 | Canada Mary-Sophie Harvey (1:56.33) Ella Jansen (1:57.50) Summer McIntosh (1:53.97) Julie Brousseau (1:58.25) | 7:46:05 | |
| 5 | 1 | Great Britain Freya Colbert (1:55.95) Abbie Wood (1:56.57) Freya Anderson (1:56.15) Lucy Hope (1:59.56) | 7:48.23 | |
| 6 | 5 | Hungary Nikolett Pádár (1:56.14) Lilla Minna Ábrahám (1:57.23) Ajna Késely (1:59.45) Panna Ugrai (1:57.70) | 7:50.52 | |
| 7 | 2 | Brazil Maria Fernanda Costa (1:56.06 SA) Stephanie Balduccini (1:57.32) Maria Paula Heitmann (2:00.54) Gabrielle Roncatto (1:58.98) | 7:52.90 | |
| 8 | 8 | New Zealand Erika Fairweather (1:56.82) Eve Thomas (1:59.48) Caitlin Deans (1:59.79) Laticia-Leigh Transom (1:59.80) | 7:55.89 | |