Swimming, FINA Aquatics World Championships, 400 metre individual medley - 400 metre individual medley World Champions, women

1973 Gudrun Wegner
1975 Ulrike Tauber
1978 Tracy Caulkins
1982 Petra Schneider
1986 Kathleen Nord
1991 Lin Li
1994 Dai Guohong
1998 Chen Yan
2001 Yana Klochkova
2003 Yana Klochkova
2005 Katie Hoff
2007 Katie Hoff
2009 Katinka Hosszú
2011 Elizabeth Beisel