Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 6, 1973
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:57.511 WR
Medalists
	1975 →

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.

Records[edit]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Angela Franke (GDR)	5:01.10	Utrecht, Netherlands	18 August 1973
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 September	Heat	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:08.360	CR
6 September	Heat	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	5:04.036	CR
6 September	Final	Angela Franke	East Germany	4:57.511	WR

27 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	-	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	5:04.036	Q, CR
2	3	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	5:05.464	Q
3	4	-	Angela Franke	East Germany	5:05.899	Q
4	1	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:08.360	Q, CR
5	2	-	Terry Potts	United States	5:09.030	Q
6	1	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	5:10.098	Q
7	4	-	Jenny Bartz	United States	5:10.758	Q
8	3	-	José Damen	Netherlands	5:12.175	Q
9	2	-	Uta Schütz	West Germany	5:13.412
10	2	-	Susan Richardson	Great Britain	5:13.887	NR^[2]
11	1	-	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	5:14.005
12	1	-	Anita Zarnowiecki	Sweden	5:15.187
13	4	-	Marina Malyutina	Soviet Union	5:17.056
14	4	-	Gail Neall	Australia	5:17.964
15	4	-	Paola Morozzi	Italy	5:19.419
16	3	-	Jennifer McHugh	Canada	5:21.267
17	4	-	Gisela Cerezo	Venezuela	5:24.615
18	4	-	Naoko Shio	Japan	5:25.049
19	3	-	T. Skvortsova	Soviet Union	5:25.709
20	3	-	Roselina Angel	Colombia	5:25.840
21	1	-	Eleni Avlanitou	Greece	5:32.217
22	2	-	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	5:34.586
23	2	-	G. Borras	Argentina	5:39.117
24	2	-	María Mock	Puerto Rico	5:42.732
25	1	-	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	5:48.120
26	1	-	Angela López	Puerto Rico	5:51.895
27	3	-	K. Tevajarvi	Finland		DNS / DSQ

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	4:57.511	WR
	-	Angela Franke	East Germany	5:00.376
	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	5:02.029
4	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	5:07.012
5	-	Terry Potts	United States	5:09.904
6	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:10.282
7	-	Jenny Bartz	United States	5:10.451
8	-	José Damen	Netherlands	5:15.660

^ "For the Record" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine: 73. October 1973. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
^ Fox, Norman (7 September 1973). "Wilkie's world record and gold medal". The Times. London. p. 11.