The women's 400 metre freestyle event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 20 July.
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Rebecca Perrott 4:15.71 Q, OR 2 Regina Jäger 4:20.05 3 Tracey Wickham 4:24.44 4 Carine Verbauwen 4:26.27 5 María Pérez 4:38.93 6 María París 4:40.35 7 Vilborg Sverrisdóttir 4:48.28
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Brenda Borgh 4:17.20 Q 2 Wendy Quirk 4:19.69 3 Wendy Lee 4:20.16 4 Laura Bortolotti 4:29.71 5 Antonia Real 4:30.37 6 Fernanda Pérez 4:45.73 7 Karen Robertson 5:03.90
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Annelies Maas 4:17.16 Q 2 Kathy Heddy 4:19.34 Q 3 Susan Barnard 4:30.05 4 Maria Guimarães 4:32.63 5 Linda Faber 4:36.98 6 Susana Coppo 4:57.41
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Shirley Babashoff 4:16.07 Q 2 Shannon Smith 4:16.70 Q 3 Sabine Kahle 4:19.34 Q 4 Irina Vlasova 4:21.19 5 Ratchaneewan Bulakul 4:32.98 6 Susan Edmondson 4:33.33 7 Diana Hatler 4:49.73
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Petra Thümer 4:17.20 Q 2 Rosemary Milgate 4:21.20 3 Jenny Turrall 4:21.33 4 Allison Calder 4:23.64 5 Eleonora Pandini 4:34.69 6 Myriam Mizouni 4:43.11 7 Georgina Osorio 4:49.80
Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Petra Thümer 4:09.89 WR Shirley Babashoff 4:10.46 Shannon Smith 4:14.60 4 Rebecca Perrott 4:14.76 5 Kathy Heddy 4:15.50 6 Brenda Borgh 4:17.43 7 Annelies Maas 4:17.44 8 Sabine Kahle 4:20.42
References
External links Official Olympic Report