Home / Select a different event
Date: 30 September 1972
Summary
Heat 1
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Jenny Wylie | USA | 4:27.53 |
| 2 | Anke Rijnders | NED | 4:29.94 |
| 3 | Karin Tulling | GDR | 4:32.56 |
| 4 | Federica Stabilini | ITA | 4:36.32 |
| 5 | Maria Teresa Ramirez | MEX | 4:39.14 |
| 6 | Helga Wagner | FRG | 4:47.61 |
| 7 | Kirsten Knudsen | DEN | 4:53.76 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Shirley Babashoff | USA | 4:31.98 |
| 2 | Karen Moras | AUS | 4:36.14 |
| 3 | Mary Beth Rondeau | CAN | 4:36.71 |
| 4 | Anne Marie McCaffery | CAN | 4:39.92 |
| 5 | Roselina Angel | COL | 4:45.97 |
| 6 | Belinda Phillips | JAM | 4:47.54 |
| 7 | Hsu Yue-Yun | TPE | 4:58.57 |
| Did not start | |||
| Elke Sehmisch | GDR | ||
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Shane Gould | AUS | 4:28.46 |
| 2 | Hansje Bunschoten | NED | 4:31.76 |
| 3 | Uta Schutz | FRG | 4:34.67 |
| 4 | Narelle Moras | AUS | 4:37.57 |
| 5 | Susan Edmondson | GBR | 4:39.10 |
| 6 | Ileana Morales | VEN | 4:44.73 |
| 7 | Diana Sutherland | GBR | 4:47.66 |
| Did not start | |||
| Mireille Bassoul | LBN | ||
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Novella Calligaris | ITA | 4:24.14 |
| 2 | Keena Rothhammer | USA | 4:24.82 |
| 3 | Gudrun Wegner | GDR | 4:25.13 |
| 4 | Olga de Angulo | COL | 4:40.09 |
| 5 | Jaynie Parkhouse | NZL | 4:40.24 |
| 5 | June Green | GBR | 4:45.81 |
| 7 | Helene Avlonitou | GRE | 4:52.10 |
| 8 | Patricia Lopez | ARG | 4:59.68 |