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

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the VI Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 10 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Mexico
«1967
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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]

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

Final

The final was held on August 10.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Pat Miles  United States 16:32.0 GR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Tom McBreen  United States 16:33.0
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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

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