| Final 24.07 19:09 | time | L | -time |  | 1. Australia | 3:37.32 | 4 |   |  |  Jodie Henry 54.45s, Alice Mills 53.96s, Shayne Reese 55.37s, Lisbeth Lenton 53.54s |  | 2. Germany | 3:38.24 | 3 | 0.92s |  |  Petra Dallmann 55.01s, Antje Buschschulte 54.37s, Annika Liebs 54.66s, Daniela Gotz 54.20s |  | 3. United States | 3:38.31 | 2 | 0.99s |  |  Natalie Coughlin 54.31s, Kara Lynn Joyce 55.22s, Lacey Nymeyer 54.88s, Amanda Weir 53.90s |  | 4. Netherlands | 3:39.37 | 6 | 2.05s |  |  Inge Dekker 54.95s, Hinkelien Schreuder 55.56s, Chantal Groot 55.52s, Marleen Veldhuis 53.34s |  | 5. France | 3:39.45 | 5 | 2.13s |  |  Solenne Figues 55.47s, Celine Couderc 54.52s, Aurore Mongel 55.42s, Malia Metella 54.04s |  | 6. China | 3:42.10 | 7 | 4.78s |  |  Yu Yang 55.95s, Ji LI 56.24s, Yingwen Zhu 54.31s, Jiaying Pang 55.60s |  | 7. Sweden | 3:42.93 | 1 | 5.61s |  |  Anna-Karin Kammerling 56.67s, Josefin Lillhage 54.25s, Therese Alshammar 54.81s, Gabriella Fagundez 57.20s  |  | 8. New Zealand | 3:44.84 | 8 | 7.52s |  |  Nichola Chellingworth 56.68s, Alison Fitch 55.67s, Hannah Mclean 55.49s, Te Rina Taite 57.00s |   
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