title: Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
text: # Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
  
  The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 27. The heats and final took place on May 27.
  
  ## Records
  
  Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
  
  | | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | World record | China | 3:52.19 | Rome | August 1, 2009 |
  | European record | Germany | 3:55.79 | Rome | August 1, 2009 |
  | Championship record | Great Britain | 3:59.33 | Eindhoven | March 24, 2008 |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Heats
  
  15 nations participated in 2 heats.
  
  | Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1 | 3 | Carlotta Zofkova Chiara Boggiatto Silvia Di Pietro Alice Mizzau | Italy | 4:04.99 | Q |
  | 2 | 1 | 1 | Lisa Graf Caroline Ruhnau Sina Sutter Daniela Schreiber | Germany | 4:05.11 | Q |
  | 3 | 1 | 6 | Therese Svendsen Joline Höstman Martina Granström Nathalie Lindborg | Sweden | 4:06.00 | Q |
  | 4 | 2 | 6 | Mercedes Peris Concepcion Badillo Diaz Judit Ignacio Sorribes Patricia Castro Ortega | Spain | 4:06.13 | Q |
  | 5 | 2 | 8 | Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir Sarah Blake Bateman Eva Hannesdóttir | Iceland | 4:07.33 | Q |
  | 6 | 1 | 2 | Hazal Sarikaya Dilara Buse Günaydin Ayse Ezgi Yazici Burcu Dolunay | Turkey | 4:08.63 | Q |
  | 7 | 2 | 3 | Anni Alitalo Jenna Laukkanen Emilia Pikkarainen Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 4:08.67 | Q |
  | 8 | 2 | 2 | Eszter Povázsay Anna Sztankovics Liliána Szilágyi Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 4:09.10 | Q |
  | 9 | 1 | 4 | Uschi Halbreiner Lisa Zaiser Birgit Koschischek Eva Chavez-Diaz | Austria | 4:10.75 | NR |
  | 10 | 2 | 5 | Alicja Tchorz Ewa Scieszko Anna Dowgiert Aleksandra Urbanczyk | Poland | 4:11.36 | |
  | 11 | 2 | 4 | Kristina Krasyukova Irina Novikova Daria Tcvetkova Maria Ugolkova | Russia | 4:11.63 | |
  | 12 | 1 | 7 | Melanie Nocher Fiona Doyle Bethany Carson Sycerika McMahon | Ireland | 4:13.75 | |
  | | 2 | 7 | Veronica Orheim Bjørlykke Katharina Stiberg Ingvild Snildal Henriette Brekke | Norway | DSQ | |
  | | 2 | 1 | | Greece | DNS | |
  | | 1 | 5 | | Czech Republic | DNS | |
  
  ### Final
  
  The final was held at 18:02.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 5 | Jenny Mensing Sarah Poewe Alexandra Wenk Britta Steffen | Germany | 3:58.43 | CR |
  | | 4 | Arianna Barbieri Ilaria Bianchi Chiara Boggiatto Alice Mizzau | Italy | 4:01.92 | NR |
  | | 3 | Therese Svendsen Joline Höstman Martina Granström Nathalie Lindborg | Sweden | 4:05.58 | |
  | 4 | 2 | Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir Sarah Blake Bateman Eva Hannesdóttir | Iceland | 4:06.64 | NR |
  | 5 | 6 | Mercedes Peris Concepcion Badillo Diaz Judit Ignacio Sorribes Patricia Castro Ortega | Spain | 4:06.78 | |
  | 6 | 8 | Evelyn Verrasztó Anna Sztankovics Zsuzsanna Jakabos Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 4:07.19 | |
  | 7 | 1 | Anni Alitalo Jenna Laukkanen Emilia Pikkarainen Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 4:07.55 | NR |
  | 8 | 7 | Hazal Sarikaya Dilara Buse Günaydin Ayse Ezgi Yazici Burcu Dolunay | Turkey | 4:07.56 | NR |
  