Swimming at the 2009 Maccabiah Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Swimming events at the
2009 Maccabiah Games
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2009 Maccabiah Games took place on 20 July at the Wingate Institute. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, 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. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

Two heats were held. The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top eight times from the entire field qualified for the final; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements.

Nations with three or more swimmers meeting the standard could enter only three such swimmers in the final.

Medalists

Games Gold Silver Bronze
400 m individual medley Israel Amit Bechar
Israel (ISR)
Israel Roni Balzam
Israel (ISR)
United States Rachel Kessler
United States (USA)

Heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 Amit Bechar Israel Israel 5:03.45 2 4 Q
2 Rachel Kessler United States United States 5:03.77 2 5 Q
3 Roni Balzam Israel Israel 5:05.00 2 3 Q
3 Rebecca Lewinson United States United States 5:07.57 1 5 Q
5 Julie Feingold United States United States 5:11.68 1 4 Q
6 Shahar Silberman Israel Israel 5:12.21 1 3 Q
7 Amit Loutati Israel Israel 5:12.47 1 6
8 Roni Stein Israel Israel 5:12.91 2 6
9 Madeleine Golison United States United States 5:22.58 2 2
10 Dana Samuel South Africa South Africa 5:39.28 2 7 Q
11 Nathalia Pieroni Brazil Brazil 5:46.20 1 2 Q

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 4 Amit Bechar Israel Israel 4:57.15
2nd 3 Roni Balzam Israel Israel 5:03.44
3rd 5 Rachel Kessler United States United States 5:04.39
4 6 Rebecca Lewinson United States United States 5:09.92
5 7 Shahar Silberman Israel Israel 5:12.65
6 2 Julie Feingold United States United States 5:17.14
7 1 Dana Samuel South Africa South Africa 5:33.60
8 8 Nathalia Pieroni Brazil Brazil 5:52.00

References

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