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

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the VI Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Canada
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The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 8 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Greg Charlton of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[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 8.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Jim McConica United States4:09.0GR
2nd, silver medalist(s)Steve Genter United States4:13.1
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Ralph Hutton Canada4:15.8
4Gustavo Sisson Brazil4:16.5
5Alfredo Machado Brazil4:17.8
6Guillermo Garcia Mexico4:18.7
7David Johnson Canada4:23.7
8Jorge Urrueta Mexico4:24.8

References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.is
  4. Resultados
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. All Pan medalists - Female
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine.
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