Swimming at the 2005 Maccabiah Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

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The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2005 Maccabiah Games took place on 11 July at the Wingate Institute. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, 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. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

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One heats was held with all swimmers making the final.

Medalists

GamesGoldSilverBronze
400 m individual medley Flag of Israel.svg Inbal Levavi
Israel (ISR)
Flag of the United States.svg Rebecca Smock
United States (USA)
Flag of Israel.svg Tamar Shoshan
Israel (ISR)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing Maccabiah record was as follows.

National record-----
Maccabiah recordFlag of Israel.svg  Keren Regal  (ISR)4:58.80-- [1]

Heats

RankNameNationalityTimeHeatLaneNotes
1 Inbal Levavi Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 5:10.251 ?Q
2 Rebecca Smock Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:12.691 ?Q
3 Tamar Shoshan Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 5:15.111 ?Q
3 Chen Pauker Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 5:24.361 ?Q
5 Lauren Fuchs Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:41.341 ?Q
6 Cheri Silver Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 5:42.161 ?Q

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg ? Inbal Levavi Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 5:04.26
Silver medal icon.svg ? Rebecca Smock Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:10.16
Bronze medal icon.svg ? Tamar Shoshan Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 5:11.56
4 ? Chen Pauker Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 5:18.20
5 ? Lauren Fuchs Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:23.95
6 ? Cheri Silver Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia -DNS

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References

  1. "Maccabiah 2005 Swimming Preliminary Results" (PDF). Israel Swim Association. Retrieved 30 July 2009.