<page_title> Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle </page_title> <section_title> Records </section_title> <table> <cell> Federica Pellegrini (ITA) </cell> <cell> 4:01.53 </cell> <cell> Olympic record </cell> <cell> Janet Evans (USA) </cell> <cell> 4:03.85 </cell> <cell> Seoul, South Korea </cell> <cell> 22 September 1988 </cell> </table>
In Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle, Pellegrini broke the Olympic record under the time of 4:03.85, which was made by Janet Evans at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.