Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games

Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games
Freestyle
100 m		men		women
200 m				women
400 m		men		women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
Breaststroke
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m				women
200 m		men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m				women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The Swimming competition at the 3rd Pan American Games was held in Chicago, United States during the Games' run in 1959. It consisted of 16 long course (50 m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

In these Games, the U.S. swept all gold medals in swimming.

A world record was broken by the U.S. in the women's 4x100m medley relay, with a time of 4:44.6.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m freestyle	Jeffrey Farrell   USA	56.3	Elton Follett   USA	57.2	William Woolsey   USA	57.6
400m freestyle	George Breen   USA	4:31.4	George Harrison   USA	4:31.8	Eugene Lenz   USA	4:34.9
1500m freestyle	Alan Somers   USA	17:53.2	George Breen   USA	17:55.0	Gary Heinrich   USA	18:30.6
100m backstroke	Frank McKinney   USA	1:03.6	Charles Bittick   USA	1:04.2	Louis Schaeffer   USA	1:05.3
200m breaststroke	Bill Mulliken   USA	2:43.1	Kenneth Nakasone   USA	2:43.2	Manuel Sanguily   Cuba	2:44.3
200m butterfly	Dave Gillanders   USA	2:18.0	Michael Troy   USA	2:18.3	Eulalio Ríos   Mexico	2:22.5
4×200m  Free Relay	United States   Dick Blick   Peter Sintz   John Rounsavelle   Frank Winters	8:22.7	Mexico   Raúl Guzmán   Alfredo Guzmán   Jorge Escalante   Mauricio Ocampo	8:56.4	Canada   Cameron Grout   Edward Cazalet   William Campbell   Thomas Verth	9:00.4
4×100m  Medley Relay	United States   Frank McKinney   Kenneth Nakasone   Mike Troy   Jeff Farrell	4:14.9	Canada   Cameron Grout   Bob Wheaton   Steve Rabinovitch   Peter Fowler	4:23.3	Mexico   Eulalio Ríos   Alejandro Gaxiola   Jorge Escalante   Roberto Marmolejo	4:25.0

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m freestyle	Chris von Saltza   USA	1:03.8	Molly Botkin   USA	1:05.7	Joan Spillane   USA	1:05.8
200m freestyle	Chris von Saltza   USA	2:18.5	Shirley Stobs   USA	2:22.9	Joan Spillane   USA	2:23.0
400m freestyle	Chris von Saltza   USA	4:55.9	Sylvia Ruuska   USA	5:03.4	Donna Graham   USA	5:03.5
100m backstroke	Carin Cone   USA	1:12.2	Sara Barber   Canada	1:12.3	Christine Kluter   USA	1:12.4
200m breaststroke	Anne Warner   USA	2:56.8	Patty Kemper   USA	3:00.1	Anne Brancroft   USA	3:01.3
100m butterfly	Becky Collins   USA	1:09.5	Nancy Ramey   USA	1:10.4	Molly Botkin   USA	1:12.3
4×100m  Free Relay	United States   Molly Botkin   Joan Spillane   Shirley Stobs   Chris von Saltza	4:17.5	Canada   Margaret Iwasaki   Helen Hunt   Sara Barber   Sandra Scott	4:31.9	Mexico   Blanca Barrón   María Luisa Souza   Gloria Botella   Rebeca García	4:37.0
4×100m  Medley Relay	United States   Carin Cone   Anne Brancroft   Becky Collins   Chris von Saltza	4:44.6 WR	Canada   Margaret Iwasaki   Janice Shepp   Sara Barber   Sandra Scott	4:58.7	Mexico   Blanca Barrón   Eulalia Martínez   Gloria Botella   Rebeca García	5:18.7

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	16	11	10	37
2	Canada	0	4	1	5
3	Mexico	0	1	4	5
4	Cuba	0	0	1	1

References

1. Hickoksports
2. Resultados
3. All Pan medalists - Male
4. All Pan medalists - Female
5. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
6. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
7. Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. Editora Planeta. ISBN 8576652803.