Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	23 July 2001
Winning time	3:39.58
Medalists
Petra Dallmann Antje Buschschulte Katrin Meissner Sandra Völker   Germany   Alison Sheppard Melanie Marshall Rosalind Brett Karen Pickering   Great Britain   Colleen Lanne Erin Phenix Maritza Correia Courtney Shealy   United States

The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place in Marine Messe in Fukuoka, Japan in 23 July 2001.

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 3:36.61 swum by United States on September 16, 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
• CR: 3:37.91 swum by China on September 7, 1994 in Rome, Italy.

Results

Heats

Place	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers (split)	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Germany	Petra Dallmann (55.80) Antje Buschschulte (54.53) Katrin Meissner (54.94) Meike Freitag (56.13)	3:41.40	Q
2	2	4	United States	Tammie Stone (55.75) Stefanie Williams (55.84) Erin Phenix (54.74) Courtney Shealy (55.16)	3:41.49	Q
3	2	3	Australia	Sarah Ryan (55.14) Elka Graham (55.42) Jodie Henry (55.81) Giaan Rooney (55.39)	3:41.76	Q
4	1	3	United Kingdom	Alison Sheppard (55.97) Melanie Marshall (55.48) Rosalind Brett (55.09) Karen Pickering (55.38)	3:41.92	Q
5	2	6	China	Yang Yu (55.95) Han Xue (56.41) Zhu Yingwen (55.75) Xu Yanwei (54.77)	3:42.88	Q
6	2	5	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg (56.33) Josefin Lillhage (55.76) Cathrin Carlzon (56.13) Therese Alshammar (55.01)	3:43.23	Q
7	1	6	Italy	Luisa Striani (56.07) Cristina Chiuso (56.16) Sara Parise (56.38) Cecilia Vianini (54.97)	3:43.58	Q
8	2	2	Japan	Tomoko Nagai (56.16) Maki Mita (55.84) Eri Yamanoi (56.81) Sumika Minamoto (54.90)	3:43.71	Q
9	1	2	Canada	Laura Nicholls (56.25) Marianne Limpert (55.66) Jessica Deglau (56.92) Sophie Simard (57.20)	3:46.03
10	1	4	Netherlands	Manon van Rooijen (56.75) Chantal Groot (56.34) Hinkelien Schreuder (56.11) Wilma van Hofwegen (57.34)	3:46.54
11	1	7	Singapore	Christel Bouvron (59.95) Rebecca Heng (1:02.95) Nicolette Teo (59.56) Jacqueline Lim (59.57)	4:02.03
12	2	7	Chinese Taipei	Sung Yi-Chien (1:00.01) Lin Chi-Chan (58.98) Lee Huei-Yun (1:03.44) Kuan Chia-Hsien (1:00.22)	4:02.65
13	2	1	Macau	Weng Tong Cheong (1:02.41) Wai Man Lam (1:04.04) Weng Lam Cheong (1:04.65) Shun Kwan Andrea Chum (1:03.67)	4:14.77

Final

Place	Lane	Nation	Swimmers (split)	Time	Notes
	4	Germany	Petra Dallmann (55.33) Antje Buschschulte (55.13) Katrin Meissner (54.07) Sandra Völker (55.05)	3:39.58
	6	United Kingdom	Alison Sheppard (56.15) Melanie Marshall (55.22) Rosalind Brett (54.76) Karen Pickering (54.67)	3:40.80
	5	United States	Colleen Lanne (56.15) Erin Phenix (54.68) Maritza Correia (54.94) Courtney Shealy (55.03)	3:40.80
4	7	Sweden	Josefin Lillhage (56.19) Johanna Sjöberg (54.79) Therese Alshammar (54.58) Anna-Karin Kammerling (55.62)	3:41.18
5	2	China	Yang Yu (55.89) Han Xue (55.77) Zhu Yingwen (55.31) Xu Yanwei (54.35)	3:41.32
6	3	Australia	Sarah Ryan (55.22) Petria Thomas (55.68) Lori Munz (55.57) Giaan Rooney (55.54)	3:42.01
7	8	Japan	Tomoko Nagai (56.00) Maki Mita (55.83) Sumika Minamoto (55.04) Eri Yamanoi (56.20)	3:43.07
8	1	Italy	Luisa Striani (56.64) Cristina Chiuso (56.11) Sara Parise (56.06) Cecilia Vianini (55.86)	3:44.67