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

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]

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

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

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Final

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The final was held on October 22.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Kathy Heddy United States4:23.00GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Kathie Wickstrand United States4:27.66
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Michele Oliver Canada4:30.20
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5Maria Guimarães Brazil4:39.00
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8Leila Louzada Brazil4:51.85

References

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  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - 23 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 37". O GLOBO. Retrieved 1 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Deprecated link 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