Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

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Women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 17 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Canada
«1979
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The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 17 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Tracy Caulkins of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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.[8]

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 August 17.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tracy Caulkins  United States 4:51.82
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Polly Winde  United States 4:54.11
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Michelle MacPherson  Canada 4:54.86
4 Donna McGinnis  Canada 5:04.13
5 Jodie Lawaetz  U.S. Virgin Islands 5:13.16
6 Karen Brandes  Peru 5:14.40
7 Irma Huerta  Mexico 5:14.82
8 Magdalena Frigo  Venezuela 5:17.37

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  2. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. ^ Hickosports Results
  4. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  5. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  6. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  7. ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine