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	Fukuoka, Japan
Pan Am Record	Carlton Bruner (USA)	15:13.90	1995-03-17	Mar del Plata, Argentina

Results

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

Notes

References

• 2003 Pan American Games Results: Day 16, CBC online; retrieved 2009-06-13.
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