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

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 7, 1973
Competitors	26 from 18 nations
Winning time	4:20.287 CR
Medalists
	1975 →

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.

Records

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

World record	Keena Rothhammer (USA)	4:18.07	Louisville, United States	22 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
7 September	Heat	Virginia Rickard	Australia	4:24.994	CR
7 September	Heat	Heather Greenwood	United States	4:24.938	CR
7 September	Final	Heather Greenwood	United States	4:20.287	CR

26 swimmers participated in 4 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-	Heather Greenwood	United States	4:24.938	Q, CR
2	1	-	Virginia Rickard	Australia	4:24.994	Q, CR
3	4	-	Keena Rothhammer	United States	4:25.122	Q
4	1	-	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	4:25.888	Q
5	2	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	4:27.089	Q
6	4	-	Narelle Moras	Australia	4:30.288	Q
7	2	-	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	4:31.630	Q
8	2	-	Janice Stenhouse	Canada	4:32.040	Q
9	1	-	Uta Schütz	West Germany	4:33.186
10	1	-	Maria Guimarães	Brazil	4:34.053
11	2	-	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	4:34.166
12	4	-	Anne Marie McCaffrey	Canada	4:37.118
13	4	-	Federica Stabilini	Italy	4:38.899
14	2	-	Ileana Morales	Venezuela	4:39.976
15	3	-	Marie Sundeborg	Sweden	4:45.292
16	3	-	Tamara Shelofastova	Soviet Union	4:48.743
17	4	-	S. Arambatsis	Venezuela	4:49.187
18	2	-	E. Pilawska	Poland	4:49.474
19	2	-	S. Pavletic	Yugoslavia	4:53.004
20	4	-	Eleni Avlanitou	Greece	4:53.148
21	1	-	E. Tomandl	Austria	4:59.692
22	4	-	L. Moreda	Puerto Rico	5:00.252
23	4	-	María Mock	Puerto Rico	5:00.906
24	3	-	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	5:04.065
25	3	-	D. Garcia	Argentina	5:07.040
26	3	-	Hansje Bunschoten	Netherlands	-	DNS / DQ

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Heather Greenwood	United States	4:20.287	CR
	3	Keena Rothhammer	United States	4:21.507
	2	Novella Calligaris	Italy	4:21.798	ER^[2]
4	5	Virginia Rickard	Australia	4:23.486
5	6	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	4:24.641
6	1	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	4:30.940
7	8	Janice Stenhouse	Canada	4:31.923
8	7	Narelle Moras	Australia	4:34.948

^ "For the Record" (pdf). Swimming World Magazine: 73. October 1973. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
^ Fox, Norman (8 September 1973). "Poor turn holds Wilkie to third place in medley final". The Times. London. p. 15.