Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle explained
| Event: | Men's 400 metre freestyle |
| Games: | 1959 |
| Venue: | - |
| Dates: | September 1 (preliminaries), September 3 (finals) |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Gold: | George Breen |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | George Harrison |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Eugene Lenz |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1955 |
| Next: | 1963 |
The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaires)[1] [2] and 3 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was James McLane of US.[4] [5] [6] [7]
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[8]
Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.
Heats
The first round was held on September 1.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1 | | | 4:34.1 | Q, GR |
| - | 2 | | | 4:37.2 | Q |
| - | 1 | | | - | Q |
| - | 2 | | | - | Q |
| - | 4 | | | 4:44.9 | Q |
| - | 3 | | | 4:46.4 | Q |
| - | 4 | | | - | Q |
| - | - | - | - | - | Q |
| - | - | | | - | | |
Final
The final was held on September 3.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|
| | | 4:31.4 | GR |
| | | 4:31.8 | |
| | | 4:34.9 | |
| 4 | | | 4:42.4 | |
| 5 | | | 4:42.7 | |
| 6 | | | 4:49.9 | |
| 7 | - | - | - | |
| 8 | | | 4:50.2 | | |
Notes and References
- Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 2, 1959, Morning, General, page 16. O GLOBO. 7 September 2013.
- http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
- Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 4, 1959, Morning, General, page 14. https://archive.today/20130908000813/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1959/09/04/01-primeira_secao/ge040959014PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 8 September 2013. 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.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual
