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

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
Heather Greenwood    United States   Keena Rothhammer    United States   Novella Calligaris    Italy
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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		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

Results[]

Heats[]

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	-		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	-		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		4:39.976
15	3	-		Sweden	4:45.292
16	3	-	Tamara Shelofastova	Soviet Union	4:48.743
17	4	-			4:49.187
18	2	-		Poland	4:49.474
19	2	-		Yugoslavia	4:53.004
20	4	-			4:53.148
21	1	-		Austria	4:59.692
22	4	-			5:00.252
23	4	-	María Mock		5:00.906
24	3	-	Myriam Mizouni		5:04.065
25	3	-			5:07.040
26	3	-	Hansje Bunschoten		-	DNS / DQ

Final[]

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		Australia	4:23.486
5	6	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	4:24.641
6	1	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	4:30.940
7	8		Canada	4:31.923
8	7	Narelle Moras	Australia	4:34.948

References[]