The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaires)O GLOBO News Archive and 3 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was James McLane of US.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - Male
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.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 September 1.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 George Harrison 4:34.1 Q, GR - 2 Eugene Lenz 4:37.2 Q - 1 Alfredo Guzmán - Q - 2 Mauricio Ocampo - Q - 4 Sídnei Gavioli 4:44.9 Q - 3 George Breen 4:46.4 Q - 4 Jorge Escalante - Q - - - - - Q - - Francisco Carioba -
Final The final was held on September 3. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes George Breen 4:31.4 GR George Harrison 4:31.8 Eugene Lenz 4:34.9 4 Mauricio Ocampo 4:42.4 5 Alfredo Guzmán 4:42.7 6 Jorge Escalante 4:49.9 7 - - - 8 Sídnei Gavioli 4:50.2
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