Swimming, FINA Aquatics World Championships, 400 metre freestyle - 400 metre freestyle World Champions, women

1973 Heather Greenwood
1975 Shirley Babashoff
1978 Tracey Wickham
1982 Carmela Schmidt
1986 Heike Friedrich
1991 Janet Evans
1994 Yang Aihua
1998 Chen Yan
2001 Yana Klochkova
2003 Hannah Stockbauer
2005 Laure Manaudou
2007 Laure Manaudou
2009 Federica Pellegrini
2011 Federica Pellegrini