Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the I959 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 31 (preliminaries), September 4 (finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   United States
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaries) [1][2] and 4 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was James McLane of US.[4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 31.[1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Alan Somers United States18:15.9Q, GR
23George Breen United States18:30.1Q
32Gary Heinrich United States18:38.2Q
41Alfredo Guzmán Mexico18:50.4Q
52Mauricio Ocampo Mexico18:52.7Q
63Raúl Guzmán Mexico19:21.9Q
71Alberto Udquiaga Peru19:57.5Q
81Carlos Fiorito Argentina20:11.8Q
-3Aldo Perseke Brazil20:20.0

Final

The final was held on September 4.[3]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Alan Somers United States17:53.2GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)George Breen United States17:55.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Gary Heinrich United States18:30.6
4Alfredo Guzmán Mexico18:38.4
5Mauricio Ocampo Mexico18:58.7
6Raúl Guzmán Mexico18:59.0
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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 1, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 5, 1959, Morning, General, page 1". O GLOBO. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  5. Resultados
  6. All Pan medalists - Male
  7. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  8. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  9. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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