| Men 400m Freestyle Swimming II World Championship 1975 Cali, Colombia - , 2-th July - Gold Medal:  | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | 1. Tim Shaw |   United States | 3:54.88 | CR |   | 5 | 17 |  | 2. Bruce Furniss |   United States | 3:57.71 |   | +2.83s | 4 | 18 |  | 3. Frank Pfutze |   East Germany | 4:01.10 |   | +6.22s | 3 | 16 |  | 4. Graham Windeatt |   Australia | 4:02.72 |   | +7.84s | 6 | 20 |  | 5. Gordon Downie |   Great Britain | 4:02.88 |   | +8.00s | 7 | 20 |  | 6. Rainer Strohbach |   East Germany | 4:05.19 |   | +10.31s | 2 | 17 |  | 7. Peter Pettersson |   Sweden | 4:05.39 |   | +10.51s | 1 | 17 |  | 8. Andrey Krylov |   Soviet Union | 4:09.00 |   | +14.12s | 8 | 19 |   
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 Heats - Tuesday, 22nd July |  | Best 8 times advanced to Final>.  |   
| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 2. Tim Shaw |   United States | 4:04.23 |   | +0.42s | - | 17 | 1.  |  | 4. Graham Windeatt |   Australia | 4:04.76 |   | +0.95s | - | 20 | 2.  |  | 7. Andrey Krylov |   Soviet Union | 4:05.62 |   | +1.81s | - | 19 | 3.  |  | 10.Marc Lazzaro |   France | 4:07.70 |   | +3.89s | - | 19 | 4.  |  | 21.Josy Wilwert |   Luxembourg | 4:28.91 |   | +25.10s | - | _ | 5.  |   
| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 1. Bruce Furniss |   United States | 4:03.81 |   |   | - | 18 | 1.  |  | 9. Werner Lampe |   West Germany | 4:07.37 |   | +3.56s | - | 22 | 2.  |  | 11.Max Metzker |   Australia | 4:08.53 |   | +4.72s | - | 15 | 3.  |  | 12.Brett Naylor |   New Zealand | 4:09.24 |   | +5.43s | - | 18 | 4.  |  | 15.Henk Elzerman |   Netherlands | 4:12.52 |   | +8.71s | - | 16 | 5.  |  | 20.Tomas Alberto Becerra |   Colombia | 4:22.00 |   | +18.19s | - | 21 | 6.  |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 3. Frank Pfutze |   East Germany | 4:04.25 |   | +0.44s | - | 16 | 1.  |  | 5. Rainer Strohbach |   East Germany | 4:05.02 |   | +1.21s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 13.Bengt Gingsjo |   Sweden | 4:09.72 |   | +5.91s | - | 23 | 3.  |  | 17.Jim Green |   Canada | 4:15.47 |   | +11.66s | - | _ | 4.  |  | 18.Krasimir Enchev |   Bulgaria | 4:20.27 |   | +16.46s | - | _ | 5.  |  | 19.Guillermo Pacheco |   Peru | 4:20.99 |   | +17.18s | - | 20 | 6.  |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 6. Gordon Downie |   Great Britain | 4:05.60 |   | +1.79s | - | 20 | 1.  |  | 8. Peter Pettersson |   Sweden | 4:06.22 |   | +2.41s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 14.Aleksandr Samsonov |   Soviet Union | 4:11.67 |   | +7.86s | - | 22 | 3.  |  | 16.Michael Ker |   Canada | 4:13.79 |   | +9.98s | - | 18 | 4.  |  | 22.Jose Alfredo Uribe |   Colombia | 4:31.56 |   | +27.75s | - | _ | 5.  |   
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