Swimming at the 1975 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1975 Pan American Games took place on 20 October.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Steve Furniss of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 1975 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesOctober 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Mexico
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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 edit

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

Heats edit

Final edit

The final was held on October 20.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Steve Furniss   United States 4:40.38 GR
  Rick Colella   United States 4:40.91
  Ricardo Marmolejo   Mexico 4:43.67
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 - - -
8 - - -

References edit

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - 21 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 26". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 31 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 1975 Pan
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine