Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The Women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 8 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Claudia Kolb of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8][excessive citations]

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   Canada
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   United States
«1967
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This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle.[9]

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

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Final

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The final was held on August 8.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Leslie Cliff   Canada 5:13.3
  Cindy Plaisted   United States 5:13.6
  Susie Atwood   United States 5:13.8
4 Laura Vaca   Mexico 5:27.5
5 Maria Isabel Guerra   Brazil 5:27.7 SA
6 Olga Lucia de Angulo   Colombia 5:32.0
7 Jeanne Waarren   Canada 5:33.3
8 Ana de la Portilla   Mexico 5:34.0

References

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  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - August 9, 1971, Evening, General, page 42". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. ^ Resultados
  5. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  6. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine