Swimming at the 1963 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1963 Pan American Games took place on April.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Alan Somers of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1963 Pan American Games
Venue-
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Canada
«1959
1967»

This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.[8]

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

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Final

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The final was held on April.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Roy Saari United States17:26.2
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Sandy Gilchrist Canada17:58.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Ralph Hutton Canada18:08.6
4Bill Farley United States18:30.4
5Alfredo Guzmán Mexico18:31.0
6Celestino Pérez Puerto Rico18:50.8
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References

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  1. 1 2 "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. Hickoksports Deprecated link archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. Hickosports Results
  4. All Pan medalists - Male
  5. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
  6. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  7. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine