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

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Leslie Cliff    Canada   Cindy Plaisted    United States   Susie Atwood    United States
«1967 1975»

The Women's 400 metre individual medley 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 Claudia Kolb of US. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [ excessive citations ]}

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.

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 8. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Leslie Cliff	Canada	5:13.3
	Cindy Plaisted	United States	5:13.6
	Susie Atwood	United States	5:13.8
4	Laura Vaca	Mexico	5:27.5
5	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	5:27.7	SA
6	Olga Lucia de Angulo	Colombia	5:32.0
7	Jeanne Waarren	Canada	5:33.3
8	Ana de la Portilla	Mexico	5:34.0

References

1. "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