Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle explained
| Event: | Men's 1500 metre freestyle |
| Games: | 1959 |
| Venue: | - |
| Dates: | August 31 (preliminaries), September 4 (finals) |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Gold: | Alan Somers |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | George Breen |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Gary Heinrich |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1955 |
| Next: | 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.
Heats
The first round was held on August 31.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1 | | | 18:15.9 | Q, GR |
| 2 | 3 | | | 18:30.1 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | | | 18:38.2 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | | | 18:50.4 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | | | 18:52.7 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | | | 19:21.9 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | | | 19:57.5 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | | | 20:11.8 | Q |
| - | 3 | | | 20:20.0 | | |
Final
The final was held on September 4.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|
| | | 17:53.2 | GR |
| | | 17:55.0 | |
| | | 18:30.6 | |
| 4 | | | 18:38.4 | |
| 5 | | | 18:58.7 | |
| 6 | | | 18:59.0 | |
| 7 | - | - | - | |
| 8 | - | - | - | | |
Notes and References
- Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 1, 1959, Morning, General, page 16. https://archive.today/20130907111946/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1959/09/01/01-primeira_secao/ge010959016PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 7 September 2013. O GLOBO. 7 September 2013.
- http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
- Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 5, 1959, Morning, General, page 1. O GLOBO. 7 September 2013.
- http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
- http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Resultados
- http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
- Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-09-15 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
- http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
- http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual
