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

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the VI Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   Canada
   United States
   United States
«1967
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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]

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

Final

The final was held on August 8.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Leslie Cliff  Canada 5:13.3
2nd, silver medalist(s) Cindy Plaisted  United States 5:13.6
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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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