Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Tracy Caulkins   United States   Anne Tweedy   United States   Nancy Garapick   Canada
«1975 1983»

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 5 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Kathy Heddy 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

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 5.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anne Tweedy	United States	4:58.53	Q
2	Tracy Caulkins	United States	4:59.73	Q
3	Nancy Garapick	Canada	5:00.92	Q
4	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	5:05.36	Q
5	Elke Holtz	Mexico	5:12.46	Q
6	Rosamaria Prado	Brazil	5:12.79	Q
7	Yolanda Mendiola	Mexico	5:14.94	Q
8	Virginia Andreatta	Brazil	5:19.65	Q
9	Maria Perez	Colombia	5:19.72	NR
10	Georgina Osorio	Panama	5:21.28	NR
11	Lisa Escalera	Puerto Rico	5:28.11
12	Linda Miranda	Puerto Rico	5:48.51

Final

The final was held on July 5.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Tracy Caulkins	United States	4:46.05	NR, GR
02 !	Anne Tweedy	United States	4:47.19
03 !	Nancy Garapick	Canada	4:53.37
4	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	4:59.54
5	Elke Holtz	Mexico	5:08.78	NR
6	Rosamaria Prado	Brazil	5:10.81
7	Virginia Andreatta	Brazil	5:16.01
8	Yolanda Mendiola	Mexico	5:18.16

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