Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

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The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between 17 and 18 October.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold Ginny Duenkel
 United States
Silver Marilyn Ramenofsky
 United States
Bronze Terri Stickles
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ginny Duenkel  United States 4:48.6
2 Martina Grunert  Germany 4:57.7
3 Ineke Tigelaar  Netherlands 5:01.8
4 Barbara Hounsell  Canada 5:04.9
5 Tazuko Kikutani  Japan 5:06.3

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Kim Herford  Australia 4:49.8
2 Ann-Charlotte Lilja  Sweden 4:52.3
3 Patty Thompson  Canada 5:06.7
4 Pauline Sillett  Great Britain 5:12.2
5 Bep Weeteling  Netherlands 5:13.0

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Liz Long  Great Britain 4:54.5
2 Daniela Beneck  Italy 4:56.2
3 Elisabeth Ljunggren-Morris  Sweden 4:57.0
4 Jutta Wanke  Germany 5:01.7
5 Ann Lallande  Puerto Rico 5:04.3
6 Rita Pulido  Spain 5:06.2
7 Marilyn Sidelsky  Zimbabwe 5:08.9

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Marilyn Ramenofsky  United States 4:47.7
2 Dawn Fraser  Australia 4:52.2
3 Jane Hughes  Canada 4:54.8
4 Nataliya Bystrova  Soviet Union 5:05.0
5 María Luisa Souza  Mexico 5:05.2
6 Majvor Welander  Sweden 5:07.7
7 Olga Belmar  Mexico 5:14.0
8 Jovina Tseng  Malaysia 5:46.0

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Terri Lee Stickles  United States 4:49.3
2 Nanette Duncan  Australia 4:55.2
3 Kazue Hayakawa  Japan 4:56.5
4 Heidi Pechstein  Germany 5:01.4
5 Nataliya Mikhaylova  Soviet Union 5:08.0
6 Im Geum-ja  South Korea 5:38.7

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ginny Duenkel  United States 4:43.3 OR
2 Marilyn Ramenofsky  United States 4:44.6
3 Terri Stickles  United States 4:47.2
4 Dawn Fraser  Australia 4:47.6
5 Jane Hughes  Canada 4:50.9
6 Liz Long  Great Britain 4:52.0
7 Kim Herford  Australia 4:52.9
8 Ann-Charlotte Lilja  Sweden 4:53.0

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2016.