The women's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2014 South American Games took place on March 8 at the Estadio Nacional. The last champion was Joanna Maranhão of Brazil.
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
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record4:28.43London, Great BritainJuly 18, 2012South American Games record4:52.84Medellín, ColombiaMarch 27, 2010
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on March 8, at 11:31.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 4 Andreina Pinto 5:03.30 Q 2 1 3 Kristel Köbrich 5:04.26 Q 3 1 5 Florencia Perotti 5:04.93 Q 4 2 4 Samantha Arévalo 5:07.28 Q 5 2 3 Virginia Bardach 5:07.49 Q 6 2 2 Maria Far 5:08.05 Q 7 2 5 Júlia Gerotto 5:10.38 Q 8 2 6 Nathalia Almeida 5:12.05 Q 9 1 6 Isabella Paez 5:16.81 10 1 2 Avalon Schultz Donlan 5:20.55
Final The final was held on March 8, at 19:43. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Andreina Pinto 4:51.17 CR 2 Virginia Bardach 4:52.94 1 Júlia Gerotto 4:55.36 4 6 Samantha Arévalo 4:55.86 5 3 Florencia Perotti 4:59.84 6 5 Kristel Köbrich 5:02.26 7 7 Maria Far 5:04.28 8 8 Nathalia Almeida 5:12.76
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