Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the III Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 31 (preliminaries), September 4 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«19551963»

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]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Alan Somers  United States 18:15.9 Q, GR
2 3 George Breen  United States 18:30.1 Q
3 2 Gary Heinrich  United States 18:38.2 Q
4 1 Alfredo Guzmán  Mexico 18:50.4 Q
5 2 Mauricio Ocampo  Mexico 18:52.7 Q
6 3 Raúl Guzmán  Mexico 19:21.9 Q
7 1 Alberto Udquiaga  Peru 19:57.5 Q
8 1 Carlos Fiorito  Argentina 20:11.8 Q
- 3 Aldo Perseke  Brazil 20:20.0

Final

The final was held on September 4.[3]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Alan Somers  United States 17:53.2 GR
2nd George Breen  United States 17:55.0
3rd Gary Heinrich  United States 18:30.6
4 Alfredo Guzmán  Mexico 18:38.4
5 Mauricio Ocampo  Mexico 18:58.7
6 Raúl Guzmán  Mexico 18:59.0
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8 - - -

References

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