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

Event:	Men's 400 metre individual medley
Games:	1971
Venue:	-
Dates:	August 7 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Steve Furniss
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Ricardo Marmolejo
Silvernoc:	MEX
Bronze:	Rick Colella
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1967
Next:	1975

The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 7 August.^[1] ^[2] The last Pan American Games champion was William Utley 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.

Final

The final was held on August 7.

Rank	Time	Notes
	4:42.7	GR
	4:49.0	NR
	4:49.3
4	4:53.9
5	4:54.7	NR
6	4:59.8
7	5:11.9

Notes and References

Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - August 9, 1971, Evening, General, page 42. https://archive.today/20130829102533/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1971/08/09/02-edicao_final/01-primeira_secao/ge090871042PRM2-1234_g.jpg. dead. 29 August 2013. O GLOBO. 29 August 2013.
http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Resultados
http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-09-15 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
http://pan.uol.com.br/pan/2007/historia/1971/nopodio.jhtm Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual