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

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the III Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 31 (preliminaries), September 4 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«1955
1963»

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, gold medalist(s) Alan Somers  United States 17:53.2 GR
2nd, silver medalist(s) George Breen  United States 17:55.0
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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
7 - - -
8 - - -

References

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