Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the III Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesSeptember 1 (preliminaries), September 3 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«19551963»

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaires)[1][2] and 3 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was James McLane of US.[4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[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 September 1.[1]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 George Harrison  United States 4:34.1 Q, GR
- 2 Eugene Lenz  United States 4:37.2 Q
- 1 Alfredo Guzmán  Mexico - Q
- 2 Mauricio Ocampo  Mexico - Q
- 4 Sídnei Gavioli  Brazil 4:44.9 Q
- 3 George Breen  United States 4:46.4 Q
- 4 Jorge Escalante  Mexico - Q
- - - - - Q
- - Francisco Carioba  Brazil -

Final

The final was held on September 3.[3]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st George Breen  United States 4:31.4 GR
2nd George Harrison  United States 4:31.8
3rd Eugene Lenz  United States 4:34.9
4 Mauricio Ocampo  Mexico 4:42.4
5 Alfredo Guzmán  Mexico 4:42.7
6 Jorge Escalante  Mexico 4:49.9
7 - - -
8 Sídnei Gavioli  Brazil 4:50.2

References

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