The Swimming competition at the 4th Pan American Games was held in São Paulo, Brazil during the Games' run in 1963. It consisted of 16 long course (50 m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.USA Swimming DatabaseResults of the 1963 Pan at USA SwimmingHickoksports ResultadosFolha OnlineAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
In these Games, the U.S. earned all gold medals that were in dispute in swimming.
Venezuela won for the first time a medal, a bronze in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay.
Results Men 100 m freestyle Steve Clark USA 54.7 Steven Jackman USA 54.8 Daniel Sherry Canada 56.1 400 m freestyle Roy Saari USA 4:19.3 Don Schollander USA 4:23.3 Sandy Gilchrist Canada 4:29.1 1500 m freestyle Roy Saari USA 17:26.2 Sandy Gilchrist Canada 17:58.9 Ralph Hutton Canada 18:08.6 100 m backstroke Ed Bartsch USA 1:01.5 Charles Bittick USA 1:02.1 Athos de Oliveira Brazil 1:03.2 200 m breaststroke Chet Jastremski USA 2:35.4 Ken Merten USA 2:38.4 John Kelso Canada 2:41.4 200 m butterfly Carl Robie USA 2:11.3 Fred Schmidt USA 2:13.3 Luis Nicolao Argentina 2:16.1 4 × 200 m free Relay Gary Ilman Richard McDonough David Lyons Ed Townsend 8:16.9 Ralph Hutton Aldwin Meinhardt Ed Casalet Sandy Gilchrist 8:33.0 Athos de Oliveira Antonio Renzo Filho Antonio Celso Guimarães Peter Wolfgang Metzner 8:41.4 4 × 100 m medley Relay Richard McGeagh Bill Craig Walter Richardson Nicholas Kirby 4:05.6 Carlos Van der Maath Alberto Pérez Luis Nicolao Abel Pepe 4:17.3 Ed Casalet John Kelso Daniel Sherry Sandy Gilchrist 4:17.5
Women 100 m freestyle Terri Stickles USA 1:02.8 Mary Stewart Canada 1:03.3 Kathleen Ellis USA 1:03.5 200 m freestyle Robyn Johnson USA 2:17.5 Terri Stickles USA 2:18.4 Lynne Pomfret Canada 2:28.4 400 m freestyle Sharon Finneran USA 4:52.7 Robyn Johnson USA 4:56.1 Lynne Pomfret Canada 5:20.4 100 m backstroke Nina Harmer USA 1:11.5 Cathy Ferguson USA 1:13.1 Eileen Weir Canada 1:14.5 200 m breaststroke Alice Driscoll USA 2:56.2 Roby Whipple USA 2:57.7 Marjon Wilmink Canada 3:00.0 100 m butterfly Kathleen Ellis USA 1:07.6 Mary Stewart Canada 1:08.9 Kim Worley USA 1:11.6 4 × 100 m free Relay Elizabeth MacCleary Sharon Stouder Judy Norton Donna de Varona 4:15.7 Lynne Pomfret Sharon Pierce Eileen Weir Mary Stewart 4:31.7 Eliana Souza Motta Maria Lourdes Teixeira Angela Maria Palioli Vera Maria Formiga 4:34.3 4 × 100 m medley Relay Ginny Duenkel Cynthia Goyette Sharon Stouder Donna de Varona 4:49.1 Mary Stewart Madelaine Sevigny Sharon Pierce Lynne Pomfret 4:52.5 Bettina Giller Luisa Ruiz Laura Varela Anneliese Rockenback 5:11.8
Medal table
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