Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 10 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Mike Burton of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 10 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Mexico
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This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.[9]

Results edit

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats edit

Final edit

The final was held on August 10.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Pat Miles   United States 16:32.0 GR
  Tom McBreen   United States 16:33.0
  Guillermo García   Canada 16:45.6
4 Jorge Delgado   Ecuador 16:53.1
5 Gustavo Sisson   Brazil 17:06.8
6 Ron Jacks   Canada 17:07.6
7 Jorge Urrueta   Mexico 17:24.0
8 Alfredo Machado   Brazil 17:25.1

References edit

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - August 11, 1971, Morning, General, page 20". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. ^ Resultados
  5. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  6. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine