Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games was held in Cali on 2 and 3 August. It was the first time that this distance was contested by women at the Games.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Marilyn Neufville  Jamaica	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	Yvonne Saunders  Jamaica

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Aurelia Pentón	Cuba	53.76	Q
2	1	Marilyn Neufville	Jamaica	53.88	Q
3	3	Yvonne Saunders	Jamaica	53.91	Q
4	3	Brenda Walsh	Canada	54.33	Q
5	2	Carmen Trustée	Cuba	55.09	Q
6	3	Jarvis Scott	United States	55.26	q
7	2	Gwen Norman	United States	55.94	Q
8	1	Joyce Sadowick	Canada	56.01	q
9	2	Josefa Vicent	Uruguay	56.13
10	2	Elsy Rivas	Colombia	56.74
11	3	Rosalia Abadía	Panama	57.05
12	1	Gloria González	Chile	57.12
13	1	Cristina Filgueira	Argentina	57.19
14	3	María Cristina Ducci	Chile	57.47
15	1	Ana Cecilia Maquillón	Colombia	58.67
16	3	Lorraine Jordan	Guyana	1:00.75
17	2	Russel Carrero	Nicaragua	1:01.28

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Marilyn Neufville	Jamaica	52.34
	Carmen Trustée	Cuba	52.89
	Yvonne Saunders	Jamaica	53.13
4	Aurelia Pentón	Cuba	53.62
5	Brenda Walsh	Canada	54.61
6	Joyce Sadowick	Canada	54.88
7	Gwen Norman	United States	55.46
8	Jarvis Scott	United States	56.33