| Final 28.07 19:42 | time | L | -time |  | 1. United States | 7:53.70 | 4 |   |  |  Natalie Coughlin 1:58.82, Katie Hoff 1:58.50, Whitney Myers 1:58.81, Kaitlin Sandeno 1:57.57 |  | 2. Australia | 7:54.06 | 5 | 0.36s |  |  Lisbeth Lenton 1:57.06, Shayne Reese 2:00.00, Bronte Barratt 1:58.58, Linda Mackenzie 1:58.42 |  | 3. China | 7:57.29 | 3 | 3.59s |  |  Yingwen Zhu 1:58.91, Jiaying Pang 1:59.90, Yafei Zhou 1:59.44, Yu Yang 1:59.04 |  | 4. Great Britain | 7:59.04 | 2 | 5.34s |  |  Melanie Marshall 1:59.47, Caitlin Mc Clatchey 1:58.26, Joanne Jackson 1:59.16, Rebecca Cooke 2:02.15 |  | 5. France | 8:01.43 | 1 | 7.73s |  |  Laure Manaudou 2:00.47, Celine Couderc 2:00.19, Elsa N’Guessan 2:01.63, Solenne Figues 1:59.14 |  | 6. Japan | 8:04.20 | 6 | 10.50s |  |  Ai Shibata 1:59.85, Norie Urabe 2:00.78, Haruka Ueda 2:01.69, Sachiko Yamada 2:01.88 |  | 7. Canada | 8:07.56 | 8 | 13.86s |  |  Sophie Simard 2:00.18, Brittany Reimer 1:59.43, Tanya Hunks 2:03.37, Kelly Stefanyshyn 2:04.58 |  | 8. New Zealand | 8:07.95 | 7 | 14.25s |  |  Helen Norfolk 2:00.38, Alison Fitch 2:01.67, Lauren Boyle 2:03.06, Melissa Ingram 2:02.84 |   
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