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Women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 6, 1973
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:57.51 WR
Medalists
Gudrun Wegner    East Germany   Angela Franke    East Germany   Novella Calligaris    Italy
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The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Angela Franke (GDR)	5:01.10	Utrecht, Netherlands	18 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
6 September	Heat	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:08.36	CR
6 September	Heat	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	5:04.03	CR
6 September	Final	Angela Franke	East Germany	4:57.51	WR

Results

Heats

27 swimmers participated in 4 heats.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	-	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	5:04.03	Q, CR
2	3	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	5:05.46	Q
3	4	-	Angela Franke	East Germany	5:05.89	Q
4	1	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:08.36	Q, CR
5	2	-	Terry Potts	United States	5:09.03	Q
6	1	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	5:10.09	Q
7	4	-	Jenny Bartz	United States	5:10.75	Q
8	3	-	José Damen	Netherlands	5:12.17	Q
9	2	-	Uta Schütz	West Germany	5:13.41
10	2	-	Susan Richardson	Great Britain	5:13.887	NR
11	1	-	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	5:14.00
12	1	-	Anita Zarnowiecki	Sweden	5:15.18
13	4	-	Marina Malyutina	Soviet Union	5:17.05
14	4	-	Gail Neall	Australia	5:17.96
15	4	-	Paola Morozzi	Italy	5:19.41
16	3	-	Jennifer McHugh	Canada	5:21.26
17	4	-	Gisela Cerezo	Venezuela	5:24.61
18	4	-	Naoko Shio	Japan	5:25.04
19	3	-	T. Skvortsova	Soviet Union	5:25.70
20	3	-	Roselina Angel	Colombia	5:25.84
21	1	-	Eleni Avlanitou	Greece	5:32.21
22	2	-	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	5:34.58
23	2	-	G. Borras	Argentina	5:39.11
24	2	-	María Mock	Puerto Rico	5:42.73
25	1	-	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	5:48.12
26	1	-	Angela López	Puerto Rico	5:51.89
27	3	-	K. Tevajarvi	Finland		DNS / DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	4:57.51	WR
	-	Angela Franke	East Germany	5:00.37
	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	5:02.02
4	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	5:07.01
5	-	Terry Potts	United States	5:09.90
6	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:10.28
7	-	Jenny Bartz	United States	5:10.45
8	-	José Damen	Netherlands	5:15.66

References

1. "For the Record" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine: 73. October 1973. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
2. Fox, Norman (7 September 1973). "Wilkie's world record and gold medal". The Times. London. p. 11.

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