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

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 9 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Ann Simmons    United States   Jill Strong    United States   Angela Coughlan    Canada
«1967 1975»

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 9 August. ^{[1] [2]} The last Pan American Games champion was Debbie Meyer of US. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

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:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 9. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ann Simmons	United States	4:26.2
	Jill Strong	United States	4:36.2
	Angela Coughlan	Canada	4:38.9
4	-	-	-
5	Rosalinda Angel	Colombia	4:45.3
6	Olga de Angulo	Colombia	4:46.4
7	Sandra Smith	Canada	4:50.6
8	Patrícia Lopez	Argentina	5:09.1

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 10, 1971, Morning, General, page 24". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 30 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