Swimming at the 1975 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained
| Event: | Women's 400 metre individual medley |
| Games: | 1975 |
| Venue: | - |
| Dates: | October 21 (preliminaries and finals) |
| Competitors: | - |
| Nations: | - |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Gold: | Kathy Heddy |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Cheryl Gibson |
| Silvernoc: | CAN |
| Bronze: | Jennie Franks |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1971 |
| Next: | 1979 |
The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1975 Pan American Games took place on October 21.[1] [2] The last Pan American Games champion was Leslie Cliff of Canada.[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 October 21.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|
| | | 5:06.05 | |
| | | 5:06.87 | |
| | | 5:08.68 | |
| 4 | - | - | - | |
| 5 | | | 5:21.66 | |
| 6 | - | - | - | |
| 7 | - | - | - | |
| 8 | - | - | - | | |
Notes and References
- Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - 22 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 26. https://archive.today/20130831115859/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1975/10/22/01-primeiro_caderno/ge221075026ESP1-1234_g.jpg. dead. August 31, 2013. O GLOBO. August 31, 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 . September 15, 2013 . September 25, 2013 . 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/1975/nopodio.jhtm Brazil medals at 1975 Pan
- http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual
