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 Pat Miles  United States
Silver medal Tom McBreen  United States
Bronze medal Guillermo García  Mexico
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This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

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

Heats

Final

The final was held on August 10.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Pat Miles United States16:32.0GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Tom McBreen United States16:33.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Guillermo García Canada16:45.6
4Jorge Delgado Ecuador16:53.1
5Gustavo Sisson Brazil17:06.8
6Ron Jacks Canada17:07.6
7Jorge Urrueta Mexico17:24.0
8Alfredo Machado Brazil17:25.1

References
  1. "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
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