The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaries) O GLOBO News Archive and 4 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was James McLane of US.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.Swimming technical manual
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 31.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Alan Somers 18:15.9 Q, GR 2 3 George Breen 18:30.1 Q 3 2 Gary Heinrich 18:38.2 Q 4 1 Alfredo Guzmán 18:50.4 Q 5 2 Mauricio Ocampo 18:52.7 Q 6 3 Raúl Guzmán 19:21.9 Q 7 1 Alberto Udquiaga 19:57.5 Q 8 1 Carlos Fiorito 20:11.8 Q - 3 Aldo Perseke 20:20.0
Final The final was held on September 4. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Alan Somers 17:53.2 GR George Breen 17:55.0 Gary Heinrich 18:30.6 4 Alfredo Guzmán 18:38.4 5 Mauricio Ocampo 18:58.7 6 Raúl Guzmán 18:59.0 7 - - - 8 - - -
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