Swimming at the 2009 Maccabiah Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley
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.
| Swimming 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 |
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 |  Amit BecharIsrael (ISR) |
Roni Balzam Israel (ISR) |
 Rachel KesslerUnited States (USA) |
Heats
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amit Bechar | Israel | 5:03.45 | 2 | 4 | Q |
| 2 | Rachel Kessler | United States | 5:03.77 | 2 | 5 | Q |
| 3 | Roni Balzam | Israel | 5:05.00 | 2 | 3 | Q |
| 3 | Rebecca Lewinson | United States | 5:07.57 | 1 | 5 | Q |
| 5 | Julie Feingold | United States | 5:11.68 | 1 | 4 | Q |
| 6 | Shahar Silberman | Israel | 5:12.21 | 1 | 3 | Q |
| 7 | Amit Loutati | Israel | 5:12.47 | 1 | 6 | |
| 8 | Roni Stein | Israel | 5:12.91 | 2 | 6 | |
| 9 | Madeleine Golison | United States | 5:22.58 | 2 | 2 | |
| 10 | Dana Samuel |  South Africa | 5:39.28 | 2 | 7 | Q |
| 11 | Nathalia Pieroni |  Brazil | 5:46.20 | 1 | 2 | Q |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 4 | Amit Bechar | Israel | 4:57.15 | |
 | 3 | Roni Balzam | Israel | 5:03.44 | |
 | 5 | Rachel Kessler | United States | 5:04.39 | |
| 4 | 6 | Rebecca Lewinson | United States | 5:09.92 | |
| 5 | 7 | Shahar Silberman | Israel | 5:12.65 | |
| 6 | 2 | Julie Feingold | United States | 5:17.14 | |
| 7 | 1 | Dana Samuel | South Africa | 5:33.60 | |
| 8 | 8 | Nathalia Pieroni | Brazil | 5:52.00 | |
References
- "Maccabiah 2009 Swimming Results" (PDF). Israel Swim Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2009.