Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle
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 events at the 2011 Pan American Games
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 will take place on the 17 of October at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center
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. The defending
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 champion is Jessica Rodriguez
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 of the United States
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This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle
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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
World record 3:59.15 Rome
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July 26, 2009
Pan American Games record 4:10.48 Santo Domingo
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, Dominican Republic
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August 13, 2003

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee
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 (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (4:19.9) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 4, 2011). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (4:27.7) in the same qualifying period.

Results

All times shown are in seconds/minutes.
KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

The first round will be held on October 17.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 4 Andreina Pinto
Andreina Pinto
Andreina Pinto is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Venezuela. She swam for Venezuela at the 2008 Olympics.She also swam at the:*2007 World Championships*2007 Pan American Games...

 
4:16.12 QA
2 3 5 Kristel Kobrich
Kristel Köbrich
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4:16.23 QA
3 1 4 Gillian Ryan  4:16.51 QA
4 1 5 Patricia Castañeda
Patricia Castaneda
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4:16.91 QA
5 1 6 Cecilia Biagioli
Cecilia Biagioli
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4:16.96 QA
6 1 3 Joanna Maranhao
Joanna Maranhão
Joanna de Albuquerque Maranhão Bezerra de Melo, or Joanna Maranhão is a medley swimmer from Brazil. She won the bronze medal in the women's 400m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...

 
4:18.85 QA
7 3 4 Ashley Steenvoorden  4:19.16 QA
8 2 5 Susana Escobar
Susana Escobar
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4:20.16 QA
9 3 2 Yanel Pinto
Yanel Pinto
Yanel Pinto is an Olympic swimmer from Venezuela. She swam for Venezuela at the 2008 Olympics.She also swam at the:*2007 World Championships*2007 Pan American Games*2008 Open Water Worlds...

 
4:22.56 QB
10 2 2 Manuella Lyrio  4:22.97 QB
11 2 6 Bridget Coley  4:23.04 QB
12 1 2 Samantha Arevalo  4:24.81 QB
13 3 3 Alexia Benitez  4:26.05 QB
14 2 3 Sherry Liu  4:26.80 QB
15 3 6 Virginia Bardach  4:30.23 QB
16 3 7 Andrea Cedron  4:33.75 QB
17 2 7 Britany van Lange  4:57.58

Final

The final was held on October 17.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
3 Gillian Rene Ryan  4:11.58
4 Andreina Pinto
Andreina Pinto
Andreina Pinto is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Venezuela. She swam for Venezuela at the 2008 Olympics.She also swam at the:*2007 World Championships*2007 Pan American Games...

 
4:11.81
5 Kristel Kobrich
Kristel Köbrich
Kristel Arianne Köbrich Schimpl is an Olympic long-distance freestyle swimmer from Chile. She was the country's flagbearer at the 2004 Olympics, and also swam at the 2008 Games....

 
4:13.31
4 7 Joanna Maranhao
Joanna Maranhão
Joanna de Albuquerque Maranhão Bezerra de Melo, or Joanna Maranhão is a medley swimmer from Brazil. She won the bronze medal in the women's 400m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...

 
4:13.71
5 2 Cecilia Biagioli
Cecilia Biagioli
Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli is an Olympic and national record-holding swimmer from Argentina. She swam for Argentina at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

 
4:15.41
6 6 Patricia Castañeda
Patricia Castaneda
Patricia Castañeda is a Colombian actress. Patricia was born in the town of Cali, Colombia. While in school, Castañeda was asked to audition for a children's show called La Brújula Mágica she got the part and hosted the show for over 4 years and quit the studies in architecture...

 
4:17.20
7 8 Susana Escobar
Susana Escobar
Susana Escobar is a Mexican swimmer and Olympian. As of October 2008, she attends and swims for the USA's University of Texas at Austin....

 
4:17.55
8 1 Ashley Steenvoorden 4:20.51
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