Swimming at the 2003 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Swimming at the
2003 Pan American Games
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The Men's 1500m Freestyle event at the 2003 Pan American Games took place on August 17, 2003 (Day 16 of the Games).

Ricardo Monasterio won the gold medal, breaking a string of 12 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only other non-American had won the race, the Brazilian Tetsuo Okamoto, in the first edition of the Games in 1951.

Medalists

Gold Ricardo Monasterio
Venezuela (VEN)
Silver Fran Crippen
United States (USA)
Bronze Chris Thompson
United States (USA)

Records

World Record  Grant Hackett (AUS) 14:34.56 2001-07-29 Japan Fukuoka, Japan
Pan Am Record  Carlton Bruner (USA) 15:13.90 1995-03-17 Argentina Mar del Plata, Argentina

Results

Place Swimmer Time
1 Venezuela Ricardo Monasterio (VEN) 15:16.98
2 United States Fran Crippen (USA) 15:19.63
3 United States Chris Thompson (USA) 15:19.64
4 Brazil Luiz Lima (BRA) 15:41.41
5 Mexico Andres Jiménez (MEX) 15:52.40
6 Brazil Bruno Bonfim (BRA) 15:54.84
7 Mexico Leonardo Salinas (MEX) 16:00.99
8 Chile Giancarlo Zolezzi (CHI) 16:05.59

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