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

The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 7 August.O GLOBO News Archive The last Pan American Games champion was William Utley of US.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.Brazil medals at 1971 Pan

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.Swimming technical manual

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final The final was held on August 7. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Steve Furniss 4:42.7 GR Ricardo Marmolejo 4:49.0 NR Rick Colella 4:49.3 4 Tomás Becerra 4:53.9 5 Alfredo Machado 4:54.7 NR 6 José Luis Prado 4:59.8 7 Luís Syro 5:11.9

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