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Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley

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Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 18 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   Brazil
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   United States
«1979
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The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 18 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Jesse Vassallo of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle.[8]

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 August 18.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ricardo Prado  Brazil 4:21.43 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeff Kostoff  United States 4:27.99
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mike O'Brien  United States 4:30.45
4 Peter Dobson  Canada 4:30.45
5 Roger Madruga  Brazil 4:34.01
6 Cam Reid  Canada 4:37.16
7 Andrey Aguilar  Costa Rica 4:41.98
8 Enrique Leite  Uruguay 4:47.72

References

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  1. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. ^ Hickosports Results
  4. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  5. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
  6. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  7. ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine