Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
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
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m		women
4 × 200 m	men
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
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The women's 400 metre individual medley event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal on 24 July.^[1] All swimmers in the final would have won the 1972 final in this event. Ulrike Tauber won in a new world-record time.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Becky Smith	Canada	4:52.90	Q, OR
2	Judith Hudson	Australia	5:00.25
3	Anne Adams	Great Britain	5:09.60
4	Ann Bradshaw	Great Britain	5:10.82
5	Allison Smith	Australia	5:17.51
6	Nancy Deano	Philippines	5:34.89

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Donnalee Wennerstrom	United States	4:55.16	Q
2	Sabine Kahle	East Germany	4:56.85	Q
3	Lynne Rowe	New Zealand	5:09.21
4	Nataliya Popova	Soviet Union	5:15.75

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Tauber	East Germany	4:51.24	Q, OR
2	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	4:55.30	Q
3	Monique Rodahl	New Zealand	4:58.47	Q
4	Susan Richardson	Great Britain	5:06.39
5	Jeanne Haney	United States	5:10.53
6	Pierrette Michel	Belgium	5:15.86

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	4:57.39	Q
2	Joann Baker	Canada	4:58.86	Q
3	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	5:03.82
4	Colette Crabbe	Belgium	5:06.87

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ulrike Tauber	East Germany	4:42.77	WR
	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	4:48.10
	Becky Smith	Canada	4:50.48
4	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	4:52.40
5	Sabine Kahle	East Germany	4:53.50
6	Donnalee Wennerstrom	United States	4:55.34
7	Joann Baker	Canada	5:00.19
8	Monique Rodahl	New Zealand	5:00.21