Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Games:	2019
Venue:	Villa Deportiva Nacional, VIDENA
Dates:	August 9 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	15
Nations:	10
Win Value:	4:39.90
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Tessa Cieplucha
Goldnoc:	CAN
Silver:	Virginia Bardach
Silvernoc:	ARG
Bronze:	Mary-Sophie Harvey
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	2015
Next:	2023

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games was held on August 9, 2019, at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record		4:26.36	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	August 6, 2016
Pan American Games record		4:35.46	Toronto, Canada	July 16, 2015

Results

KEY:

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q

Fastest non-qualifiers

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Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 9.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5			4:42.70	QA
2	2	4			4:45.61	QA
3	1	4			4:48.99	QA
4	2	3			4:50.09	QA
5	1	6			4:50.84	QA
6	2	6			4:52.39	QA
7	1	3			4:53.42	QA
8	2	5			4:57.14	QA
9	2	7			4:59.08	QB
10	2	2			5:00.95	QB
11	2	8			5:16.93	QB
12	2	1			5:17.13	QB
13	1	8			5:17.28	QB
14	1	1			5:20.57	QB
	1	2
	1	7

Final B

The B final was also held on August 9.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4			4:57.84
10	5			4:58.01
11	6			5:05.98
12	2			5:12.72
13	7			5:19.79
	3			DSQ

Final A

The A final was also held on August 9.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			4:39.90
	6			4:41.05
	4			4:43.20
4	8			4:45.29
5	3			4:48.47
6	7			4:49.25
7	2			4:50.83
8	1			4:53.75

Notes and References

1. Web site: Villa Deportiva Nacional, VIDENA. 4 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 4 August 2019.
2. Web site: Swimming Schedule. 4 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 4 August 2019.
3. Web site: Entries List. 4 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 4 August 2019.
4. Web site: Start List. 5 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. ATOS. 5 August 2019.
5. Web site: HEATS RESULTS. 9 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. ATOS. 9 August 2019.
6. https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/PAG2019/resPAG2019/pdf/PAG2019/SWM/PAG2019_SWM_C73A1_SWMW400MIM------------FNL-000200--.pdf Women's 400m Medley - B Final
7. https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/PAG2019/resPAG2019/pdf/PAG2019/SWM/PAG2019_SWM_C73A2_SWMW400MIM------------FNL---------.pdf Women's 400m Medley - A Final