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

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

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 7 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Mexico
Bronze medal   United States
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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 7.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Steve Furniss   United States 4:42.7 GR
  Ricardo Marmolejo   Mexico 4:49.0 NR
  Rick Colella   United States 4:49.3
4 Tomás Becerra   Colombia 4:53.9
5 Alfredo Machado   Brazil 4:54.7 NR
6 José Luis Prado   Mexico 4:59.8
7 Luís Syro   Colombia 5:11.9

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