The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 7 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was William Utley of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
| Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 1971 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | - | |||||||||
| Dates | August 7 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
| Competitors | - from - nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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«1967 1975» | ||||||||||
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
editAll 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 |
Heats
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Final
editThe final was held on August 7.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Steve Furniss |  United States |
4:42.7 | GR |
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Ricardo Marmolejo |  Mexico |
4:49.0 | NR |
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Rick Colella | United States |
4:49.3 | |
| 4 | Tomás Becerra |  Colombia |
4:53.9 | |
| 5 | Alfredo Machado |  Brazil |
4:54.7 | NR |
| 6 | José Luis Prado | Mexico |
4:59.8 | |
| 7 | Luís Syro | Colombia |
5:11.9 |
References
edit- ^ a b "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.
- ^ O GLOBO News Archive
- ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
- ^ Resultados
- ^ All Pan medalists - Male
- ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
- ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
