Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between 17 and 18 October.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Gold Ginny Duenkel
  United States
Silver Marilyn Ramenofsky
  United States
Bronze Terri Stickles
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ginny Duenkel   United States 4:48.6
2 Martina Grunert   Germany 4:57.7
3 Ineke Tigelaar   Netherlands 5:01.8
4 Barbara Hounsell   Canada 5:04.9
5 Tazuko Kikutani   Japan 5:06.3

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Kim Herford   Australia 4:49.8
2 Ann-Charlotte Lilja   Sweden 4:52.3
3 Patty Thompson   Canada 5:06.7
4 Pauline Sillett   Great Britain 5:12.2
5 Bep Weeteling   Netherlands 5:13.0

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Liz Long   Great Britain 4:54.5
2 Daniela Beneck   Italy 4:56.2
3 Elisabeth Ljunggren-Morris   Sweden 4:57.0
4 Jutta Wanke   Germany 5:01.7
5 Ann Lallande   Puerto Rico 5:04.3
6 Rita Pulido   Spain 5:06.2
7 Marilyn Sidelsky   Zimbabwe 5:08.9

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Marilyn Ramenofsky   United States 4:47.7
2 Dawn Fraser   Australia 4:52.2
3 Jane Hughes   Canada 4:54.8
4 Nataliya Bystrova   Soviet Union 5:05.0
5 María Luisa Souza   Mexico 5:05.2
6 Majvor Welander   Sweden 5:07.7
7 Olga Belmar   Mexico 5:14.0
8 Jovina Tseng   Malaysia 5:46.0

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Terri Lee Stickles   United States 4:49.3
2 Nanette Duncan   Australia 4:55.2
3 Kazue Hayakawa   Japan 4:56.5
4 Heidi Pechstein   Germany 5:01.4
5 Nataliya Mikhaylova   Soviet Union 5:08.0
6 Im Geum-ja   South Korea 5:38.7

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Ginny Duenkel   United States 4:43.3 OR
  Marilyn Ramenofsky   United States 4:44.6
  Terri Stickles   United States 4:47.2
4 Dawn Fraser   Australia 4:47.6
5 Jane Hughes   Canada 4:50.9
6 Liz Long   Great Britain 4:52.0
7 Kim Herford   Australia 4:52.9
8 Ann-Charlotte Lilja   Sweden 4:53.0

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2016.