Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
The women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:Results
Heats
The heats were held at 11:15.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | Ye Shiwen Shao Yiwen Guo Junjun Zhang Wenqing | 7:52.50 | Q | |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Brittany Elmslie Emma McKeon Ami Matsuo Alicia Coutts | 7:52.69 | Q | |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Chelsea Chenault Karlee Bispo Maya Dirado Jordan Mattern | 7:53.03 | Q | |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Melanie Costa Patricia Castro Beatriz Gómez Cortés Mireia Belmonte | 7:54.90 | Q | |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Charlotte Bonnet Mylène Lazare Isabelle Mabboux Coralie Balmy | 7:56.38 | Q | |
| 6 | 1 | 5 | Samantha Cheverton Barbara Jardin Brittany MacLean Savannah King | 7:56.64 | Q | |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Chihiro Igarashi Haruka Ueda Yasuko Miyamoto Aya Takano | 7:56.98 | Q | |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | Alice Mizzau Martina de Memme Diletta Carli Federica Pellegrini | 7:57.41 | Q | |
| 9 | 1 | 6 | Viktoriya Andreyeva Veronika Popova Mariya Baklakova Ksenia Yuskova | 7:59.12 | ||
| 10 | 2 | 7 | Jéssica Cavalheiro Manuella Lyrio Larissa Oliveira Carolina Bilich | 8:09.47 | ||
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Liliana Ibáñez Fernanda González Rita Medrano Susana Escobar | 8:11.56 | NR | |
| 12 | 1 | 2 | Quah Ting Wen Lynette Lim Amanda Lim Mylene Ong | 8:15.91 | ||
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Park Jin-Young Hwang Seo-Jin An Se-Hyeon Han Na-Kyeong | 8:32.98 |
Final
The final was held at 19:40.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 3 | Katie Ledecky Shannon Vreeland Karlee Bispo Missy Franklin | 7:45.14 | |||
| 5 | Bronte Barratt Kylie Palmer Brittany Elmslie Alicia Coutts | 7:47.08 | |||
| 2 | Camille Muffat Charlotte Bonnet Mylène Lazare Coralie Balmy | 7:48.43 | |||
| 4 | 4 | Ye Shiwen Shao Yiwen Guo Junjun Qiu Yuhan | 7:49.79 | ||
| 5 | 6 | Melanie Costa Patricia Castro Mireia Belmonte Beatriz Gómez Cortés | 7:53.20 | NR | |
| 6 | 7 | Samantha Cheverton Barbara Jardin Brittany MacLean Savannah King | 7:55.48 | ||
| 7 | 8 | Alice Mizzau Martina de Memme Diletta Carli Federica Pellegrini | 7:57.91 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Chihiro Igarashi Haruka Ueda Yasuko Miyamoto Aya Takano | 7:58.15 |