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
«1971
1979»

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
  Kathy Heddy   United States 4:23.00 GR
  Kathie Wickstrand   United States 4:27.66
  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