The women's 400 metre individual
medley
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event at the
1972 Summer Olympics
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took place August 31.
This
swimming event used
medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the
butterfly stroke
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, the second pair with the
backstroke, the third pair of lengths in
breaststroke
Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...
, and the final two were
freestyle
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. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the
front crawl in freestyle events.
Medalists
Results
Heats
Heat 1
Heat 2
Heat 3
Heat 4
Heat 5
Final
Key: WR = World record
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming At The 1972 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 Metre Individual Medley
Women's Individual Medley 400 metre
1972 in women's swimming
Women's events at the 1972 Summer Olympics