Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games explained

See main article: 1951 Pan American Games.

Event:	Swimming
Games:	1951
Next:	1955

Swimming at the 1st Pan American Games took place February 26-March 7, 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[1] Preliminary heats were held February 26–28, with final heats being swum on March 2, 4, 6 and 7.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Results

Men's events

100m Freestyle	Dick Cleveland	58.8	Ronald Gora	59.5	Nicasio Silverio	1:00.1
400m Freestyle	Tetsuo Okamoto	4:52.4	Bill Heusner	4:54.5	Tonatiuh Gutiérrez	4:57.2
1500m Freestyle	Tetsuo Okamoto	19:23.3	Tonatiuh Gutiérrez	19:24.5	Efrén Fierro	19:57.4
100m Backstroke	Allen Stack	1:08.0	Pedro Galvão	1:08.3	Burwell Jones	1:09.8
200m Breaststroke	Héctor Domínguez	2:43.8	Willy Otto Jordan	2:47.3	Bowen Stassforth	2:47.6
4 × 200 m   Freestyle Relay	Ronald Gora   Burwell Jones   Dick Cleveland   Bill Heusner	9:00.6	Ricardo Capanema   Aram Boghossian   João Gonçalves Filho   Tetsuo Okamoto	9:13.0	Pedro Galvão   Carlos Alberto Bonacich   Jorge Vogt   César Guardo	9:19.5
3×100m   Medley Relay	Allen Stack   Bowen Stassforth   Dick Cleveland	3:16.9	Pedro Galvão   Orlando Cossani   César Guardo	3:20.7	Alberto Isaac   Clemente Mejía   Luis Spamer	3:22.5

Women's events

100m Freestyle	Sharon Geary	1:08:4	Jackie LaVine	1:09.9	Ana María Schultz	1:10.7
200m Freestyle	Ana María Schultz	2:32.4	Betty Brey	2:33.3	Eileen Holt	2:36.5
400m Freestyle	Ana María Schultz	5:26.7	Carolyn Green	5:33.1	Piedade Coutinho	5:33.6
100m Backstroke	Maureen O'Brien	1:18.5	Sheila Donahue	1:20.5	Magda Bruggemann	1:21.4
200m Breaststroke	Dorotea Turnbull	3:08.4	Beatriz Rohde	3:10.3	Carol Pence	3:14.7
4 × 100 m   Freestyle Relay	Carolyn Green   Sharon Geary   Jackie LaVine   Betty Brey	4:37.1	Ana María Schultz   Eileen Holt   Cristina Kujath   Emma Gondona	4:48.1	Talita Rodrigues   Idamis Busin   Ana Lucia Santa Rita   Piedade Coutinho	5:03.6
3×100m   Medley Relay	Sharon Geary   Carol Pence   Maureen O'Brien	3:49.3	Ana María Schultz   Nélida I. Del Roscio   Aurora Otero Rey	3:59.7	Magda Bruggemann   Charlotte Knapp   Adriana Hernández	4:13.2

References

• • • Folha Online
• Book: Olderr, Steven . The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition . 2009 . . 978-0786443369. .

Notes and References

1. http://www.ishof.org/pdf/panam_games.pdf 1951 Pan Ams Aquatics history
2. Swimming program from the 1951 Pan American Games, pages 18-19. Published 1951.
3. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
4. Book: Odir Cunha. Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. . 2007. 978-8576652809.