Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 11 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Debbie Meyer of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the VI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 11 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Cathy Calhoun   United States   Cynthia Enze   United States   María Teresa Ramírez   Mexico
«1967 1975»

This race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 11.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Cathy Calhoun	United States	9:15.2
	Cynthia Enze	United States	9:32.2
	María Teresa Ramírez	Mexico	9:44.3
4	Roselína Angel	Colombia	9:50.0
5	Laura Vaca	Mexico	9:50.8
6	Randi Bjune	Canada	9:56.3
7	Marcela Lizarzaburu	Ecuador	10:04.4
8	Kin Cassidy	Canada	10:07.5
9	Virgínia Dany	Puerto Rico	10:27.2
10	Liana Vicens	Puerto Rico	10:34.2
11	Maria Barraga	Peru	10:35.1

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 12, 1971, Morning, General, page 24". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
2. O GLOBO News Archive
3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
4. Resultados
5. All Pan medalists - Male
6. All Pan medalists - Female
7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
8. Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.