Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 1971 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesAugust 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
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The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 8 August. [1] [2] The last Pan American Games champion was Greg Charlton of US. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Contents

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke. [9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on August 8. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Jim McConica Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:09.0 GR
Silver medal icon.svg Steve Genter Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:13.1
Bronze medal icon.svg Ralph Hutton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4:15.8
4 Gustavo Sisson Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:16.5
5 Alfredo Machado Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:17.8
6 Guillermo Garcia Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 4:18.7
7 David Johnson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4:23.7
8 Jorge Urrueta Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 4:24.8

References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - August 9, 1971, Evening, General, page 42". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 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 1971 Pan
  9. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine