Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the VI Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 7 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   Mexico
   United States
«1967
1975»

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]

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

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 7.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Steve Furniss  United States 4:42.7 GR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Ricardo Marmolejo  Mexico 4:49.0 NR
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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

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