Swimming at the 2010 South American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The Women's 400m individual medley event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 27, with the heats at 11:22 and the Final at 18:30.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Joanna Maranhão  Brazil	Larissa Cieslak  Brazil	Samantha Arevalo  Ecuador

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 2010 South American Games
World record	Stephanie Rice (AUS)	4:29.45	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
	Georgina Bardach (ARG)	4:53.42	Buenos Aires, Argentina	16 November 2006
South American record	Georgina Bardach (ARG)	4:37.51	Athens, Greece	14 August 2004

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Joanna Maranhão (BRA)	5:01.55	Q
2	2	7	Samantha Arevalo (ECU)	5:11.33	Q
3	2	5	Julia Arino (ARG)	5:11.35	Q
4	1	4	Virginia Bardach (ARG)	5:13.49	Q
5	2	2	(PER)	5:13.93	Q
6	1	33	(COL)	5:14.86	Q
7	1	6	(PER)	5:15.10	Q
8	1	5	Larissa Cieslak (BRA)	5:15.15	Q
9	2	3	(VEN)	5:16.833
10	1	2	(CHI)	5:18.43
11	2	6	(COL)	5:25.55
12	2	1	Daniella van den Berg (ARU)	5:28.48
13	1	7	(ECU)	5:33.51
14	1	1	(SUR)	5:44.14

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
	4	Joanna Maranhão (BRA)	4:52.84	CR
	8	Larissa Cieslak (BRA)	5:01.58
	5	Samantha Arevalo (ECU)	5:03.77
4	6	Virginia Bardach (ARG)	5:07.75
5	1	(PER)	5:11.46
6	3	Julia Arino (ARG)	5:13.09
7	7	(COL)	5:14.94
8	2	(PER)	5:15.76

References[]

• Heats
• Final