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

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Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 1975 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesOctober 22 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Canada
«1971
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The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1975 Pan American Games took place on 22 October.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Ann Simmons of the United States.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[9]

Results[edit]

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[edit]

Final[edit]

The final was held on October 22.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kathy Heddy  United States 4:23.00 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kathie Wickstrand  United States 4:27.66
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Michele Oliver  Canada 4:30.20
4 - - -
5 Maria Guimarães  Brazil 4:39.00
6 - - -
7 - - -
8 Leila Louzada  Brazil 4:51.85

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - 23 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 37". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 1 September 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 1975 Pan
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine