2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
The Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships 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 | 3:28.22 | Amsterdam | 19 December 2008 | |
| Championship record | 3:28.54 | Dubai | 18 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Nation | Time | Record |
| 5 December | Final | 3:26.53 | WR |
Results
Heats
The heats were held at 13:33.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | 4 | Natalie Coughlin Amy Bilquist Madison Kennedy Amanda Weir | 3:31.02 | Q | |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Mie Nielsen Julie Levisen Pernille Blume Jeanette Ottesen | 3:32.95 | Q | |
| 3 | 2 | 6 | Silvia Di Pietro Erika Ferraioli Alice Mizzau Federica Pellegrini | 3:33.65 | Q | |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Qiu Yuhan Tang Yi Shen Duo Zhang Yufei | 3:34.12 | Q | |
| 5 | 2 | 7 | Larissa Oliveira Daynara de Paula Daiane Oliveira Alessandra Marchioro | 3:34.51 | Q, SA | |
| 6 | 2 | 4 | Miki Uchida Yayoi Matsumoto Tomomi Aoki Rino Hosoda | 3:34.63 | Q | |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Maud van der Meer Esmee Vermeulen Rieneke Terink Femke Heemskerk | 3:34.88 | Q | |
| 8 | 1 | 7 | Anna Dietterle Annika Bruhn Marlene Huther Daniela Schreiber | 3:35.35 | Q | |
| 9 | 1 | 6 | Lena Kreundl Birgit Koschischek Lisa Zaiser Jördis Steinegger | 3:36.86 | ||
| 10 | 2 | 1 | Rozaliya Nasretdinova Viktoriya Andreyeva Arina Openysheva Margarita Nesterova | 3:36.98 | ||
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Lehesta Kemp Erin Gallagher Trudi Maree Rene Warnes | 3:42.36 | ||
| 12 | 2 | 8 | İlknur Nihan Çakıcı Esra Kübra Kaçmaz Sezin Eligul Ekaterina Avramova | 3:44.04 | ||
| 13 | 1 | 2 | Tan Chi Yan Lei On Kei Long Chi Wai Choi Weng Tong | 3:58.23 | ||
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Anusha Sanjeev Mehta Malavika Vishwanath Thalasha Satish Prabhu Aditi Dhumatkar | 3:58.58 | ||
| 15 | 1 | 3 | Alexus Laird Anisha Payet Maria Marzocchi Felicity Passon | 4:07.85 | ||
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Savannah Tkatchenko Shanice Paraka Tegan McCarthy Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane | 4:08.36 | ||
| — | 2 | 3 | DNS | - |
Final
The final was held at 20:11.| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Inge Dekker Femke Heemskerk Maud van der Meer Ranomi Kromowidjojo | 3:26.53 | WR | ||
| 4 | Natalie Coughlin Abbey Weitzeil Madison Kennedy Shannon Vreeland | 3:27.70 | |||
| 3 | Erika Ferraioli Silvia Di Pietro Aglaia Pezzato Federica Pellegrini | 3:29.48 | |||
| 4 | 5 | Jeanette Ottesen Julie Levisen Mie Nielsen Pernille Blume | 3:29.86 | ||
| 5 | 6 | Qiu Yuhan Tang Yi Shen Duo Zhang Yufei | 3:31.78 | ||
| 6 | 7 | Miki Uchida Yayoi Matsumoto Tomomi Aoki Rino Hosoda | 3:32.31 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Larissa Oliveira Daynara de Paula Daiane Oliveira Alessandra Marchioro | 3:33.93 | SA | |
| 8 | 8 | Anna Dietterle Annika Bruhn Marlene Huther Daniela Schreiber | 3:34.71 |