Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1972 Summer Olympics took place August 31.[1] 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.

Medalists

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Gold Gail Neall
  Australia
Silver Leslie Cliff
  Canada
Bronze Novella Calligaris
  Italy

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Gail Neall   Australia 5:11.89
2 Susan Hunter   New Zealand 5:14.47
3 Jaroslava Slavíčková   Czechoslovakia 5:18.53
4 Birutė Užkuraitytė   Soviet Union 5:20.05
5 Helga Niemann   West Germany 5:21.97
6 Shelagh Ratcliffe   Great Britain 5:24.27
7 Helmi Boxberger   West Germany 5:32.31
8 Silvia Borgini   Argentina 5:44.22

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Hennie Penterman   Netherlands 5:14.99
2 Marlies Pohl   East Germany 5:15.38
3 Jennifer McHugh   Canada 5:20.25
4 Debbie Bengtson   Canada 5:21.62
5 Eva Sigg   Finland 5:22.92
6 Karen Moras   Australia 5:24.13
7 Kirsten Strange-Campbell   Denmark 5:25.97

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Lynn Vidali   United States 5:09.67
2 Novella Calligaris   Italy 5:11.16
3 Gerda Lassooij   Netherlands 5:22.09
4 Maria Isabel Guerra   Brazil 5:24.43
5 Trine Krogh   Norway 5:25.08
6 Diane Walker   Great Britain 5:28.82
7 Eleni Avlonitou   Greece 5:32.49
8 Béatrice Mottoulle   Belgium 5:35.38

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Evelyn Stolze   East Germany 5:06.96
2 Jenny Bartz   United States 5:07.31
3 Nina Petrova   Soviet Union 5:13.42
4 Yukari Takemoto   Japan 5:20.89
5 Wijda Mazereeuw   Netherlands 5:24.00
6 Laura Vaca   Mexico 5:24.63
7 Roselina Angee   Colombia 5:35.44

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Leslie Cliff   Canada 5:08.64
2 Mary Montgomery   United States 5:13.62
3 Angela Franke   East Germany 5:14.81
4 Anita Zarnowiecki   Sweden 5:15.05
5 Susan Richardson   Great Britain 5:19.53
6 Susanne Niesner   Switzerland 5:25.23
7 Gisela Cerezo   Venezuela 5:29.56
8 María Ballesteros   Mexico 5:31.06

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Gail Neall   Australia 5:02.97 WR
  Leslie Cliff   Canada 5:03.57
  Novella Calligaris   Italy 5:03.99
4 Jenny Bartz   United States 5:05.56
5 Evelyn Stolze   East Germany 5:06.80
6 Mary Montgomery   United States 5:09.98
7 Lynn Vidali   United States 5:13.06
8 Nina Petrova   Soviet Union 5:15.68

Key: WR = World record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2016.