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

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 6 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]}

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Cynthia Woodhead   United States   Tracy Caulkins   United States   Wendy Quirk   Canada
«1975 1983»

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

Results

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

The first round was held on July 6.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cynthia Woodhead	United States	4:22.44	Q
2	Tracy Caulkins	United States	4:23.18	Q
3	Anne Jardin	Canada	4:23.93	Q
4	Wendy Quirk	Canada	4:23.94	Q
5	Andrea Neumayer	Argentina	4:35.47	Q
6	Maria Perez	Venezuela	4:35.50	Q
7	Monica Ramirez	Mexico	4:36.26	Q
8	Georgina Osorio	Panama	4:38.14	Q
9	Ana Anchieta	Brazil	4:38.20
10	Genevieve Hernandez	Puerto Rico	4:38.52
11	Veronica Espinosa	Mexico	4:38.84
12	Sonia Acosta	Puerto Rico	4:39.53
13	Maria Vieira	Brazil	4:40.17
14	Julia Vicioso	Dominican Republic	5:01.75

Final

The final was held on July 6.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Cynthia Woodhead	United States	4:10.56	NR, GR
	Tracy Caulkins	United States	4:16.13
	Wendy Quirk	Canada	4:17.34
4	Anne Jardin	Canada	4:25.45
5	Andrea Neumayer	Argentina	4:28.39	NR
6	Maria Perez	Venezuela	4:36.86
7	Monica Ramirez	Mexico	4:37.18
8	Georgina Osorio	Panama	4:38.74

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 7 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 2013-10-08.
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