Women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 6, 1973
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:57.511 WR
Medalists
Gudrun Wegner    East Germany   Angela Franke    East Germany   Novella Calligaris    Italy
1975 →

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	5:08.360	CR
6 September	Heat	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	5:04.036	CR
6 September	Final	Angela Franke	East Germany	4:57.511	WR

Results

Heats

27 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	-	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	5:04.036	Q, CR
2	3	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	5:05.464	Q
3	4	-	Angela Franke	East Germany	5:05.899	Q
4	1	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:08.360	Q, CR
5	2	-	Terry Potts	United States	5:09.030	Q
6	1	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	5:10.098	Q
7	4	-	Jenny Bartz	United States	5:10.758	Q
8	3	-	José Damen	Netherlands	5:12.175	Q
9	2	-	Uta Schütz	West Germany	5:13.412
10	2	-	Susan Richardson	Great Britain	5:13.887	NR[2]
11	1	-	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	5:14.005
12	1	-	Anita Zarnowiecki	Sweden	5:15.187
13	4	-	Marina Malyutina	Soviet Union	5:17.056
14	4	-	Gail Neall	Australia	5:17.964
15	4	-	Paola Morozzi	Italy	5:19.419
16	3	-	Jennifer McHugh	Canada	5:21.267
17	4	-	Gisela Cerezo	Venezuela	5:24.615
18	4	-	Naoko Shio	Japan	5:25.049
19	3	-	T. Skvortsova	Soviet Union	5:25.709
20	3	-	Roselina Angel	Colombia	5:25.840
21	1	-	Eleni Avlanitou	Greece	5:32.217
22	2	-	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	5:34.586
23	2	-	G. Borras	Argentina	5:39.117
24	2	-	María Mock	Puerto Rico	5:42.732
25	1	-	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	5:48.120
26	1	-	Angela López	Puerto Rico	5:51.895
27	3	-	K. Tevajarvi	Finland		DNS / DSQ

Final

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Gudrun Wegner	East Germany	4:57.511	WR
	-	Angela Franke	East Germany	5:00.376
	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	5:02.029
4	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	5:07.012
5	-	Terry Potts	United States	5:09.904
6	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:10.282
7	-	Jenny Bartz	United States	5:10.451
8	-	José Damen	Netherlands	5:15.660