Swimming at the 1975 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1975 Pan American Games took place on 24 October.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Cathy Calhoun of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 1975 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesOctober 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal Wendy Weinberg  United States
Silver medal Mary Montgomery  United States
Bronze medal Janice Stenhouse  Canada
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This race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on October 24.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Wendy Weinberg United States9:05.57
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Mary Montgomery United States9:06.70
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Janice Stenhouse Canada9:17.87
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6Maria Guimarães Brazil9:45.37
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References
  1. "O GLOBO News Archive - 25 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 23". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. Resultados
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. Brazil medals at 1975 Pan
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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