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

  1. 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.
  2. http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 5, 1959, Morning, General, page 1. O GLOBO. 7 September 2013.
  4. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
  5. http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Resultados
  6. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
  7. 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 .
  8. http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
  9. http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual