The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 3 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. The last Pan American Games champion was Steve Furniss of the United States.Hickoksports Hickosports ResultsAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle.Swimming technical manual
Results All times shown are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on July 3.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Bill Sawchuk 4:33.97 Q 2 Jesse Vassallo 4:34.14 Q 3 Alex Baumann 4:35.42 Q 4 Guillermo Zavala 4:35.93 Q, NR 5 Glynn Perry 4:38.32 Q 6 Andrey Aguilar 4:41.43 Q 7 Jorge Varela 4:41.52 Q 8 Ricardo Prado 4:41.89 Q 9 Antonio Cerezo 4:44.31 10 Pablo Restrepo 4:45.64 11 Scott Newkirk 4:46.38 NR 12 Roger Madruga 4:49.88 13 Jean François 4:50.11 14 Emilio Abreu 4:52.85 15 Andrew Philipps 4:55.55 16 Enrique Leite 4:59.59 17 Jorge Sanchez 5:03.28 NR 18 Oscar Moreno 5:11.75 19 Victor Masalles 5:25.56
Final The final was held on July 3. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jesse Vassallo 4:21.63 NR, GR Bill Sawchuk 4:30.21 Alex Baumann 4:32.42 4 Glynn Perry 4:32.53 5 Jorge Varela 4:39.11 6 Andrey Aguilar 4:39.44 NR 7 Ricardo Prado 4:41.16 8 Guillermo Zavala DQ
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