Swimming at the 1975 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1975 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesOctober 21 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal Kathy Heddy  United States
Silver medal Cheryl Gibson  Canada
Bronze medal Jennie Franks  United States
«1971
1979»

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1975 Pan American Games took place on October 21.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Leslie Cliff of Canada.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

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

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

Final

The final was held on October 21.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kathy Heddy  United States 5:06.05
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Cheryl Gibson  Canada 5:06.87
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jennie Franks  United States 5:08.68
4 - - -
5 Flávia Nadalutti  Brazil 5:21.66
6 - - -
7 - - -
8 - - -

References

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - 22 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 26". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on August 31, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports Archived December 5, 2012, at archive.today
  4. ^ Resultados
  5. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  6. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on September 25, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved April 15, 2012.
  8. ^ Brazil medals at 1975 Pan
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine