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

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Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 1975 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesOctober 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Canada
«1971
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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]

This race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[9]

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

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Final

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The final was held on October 24.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wendy Weinberg  United States 9:05.57
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mary Montgomery  United States 9:06.70
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Janice Stenhouse  Canada 9:17.87
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 Maria Guimarães  Brazil 9:45.37
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References

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  1. ^ a b "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.