Swimming at the 1991 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Games:	1991
Venue:	-
Dates:	August 12 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Amy Shaw
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Joanne Malar
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Brandy Wood
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1987
Next:	1995

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1991 Pan American Games took place on 12 August.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Tami Bruce of US.^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

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.^[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Final

The final was held on August 12.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			4:50.39
			4:51.27
			4:52.38
4			4:56.00
5			4:58.97
6			5:01.80
7			5:03.27
8			5:03.60

Notes and References

Web site: Results. USA SWIMMING. 28 October 2013. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102302/http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/97d438f7-816e-454f-ac9a-ce177a1d3bd6/91_panam[1].pdf. dead.
http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Hickosports Results
Web site: All Pan medalists - Male . 2013-10-29 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142031/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 . dead .
Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-10-29 . 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://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual