Swimming at the 1963 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1963 Pan American Games took place on April. The last Pan American Games champion was Alan Somers of US.Hickoksports Hickosports ResultsAll 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

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

Final The final was held on April. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Roy Saari 17:26.2 Sandy Gilchrist 17:58.9 Ralph Hutton 18:08.6 4 Bill Farley 18:30.4 5 Alfredo Guzmán 18:31.0 6 Celestino Pérez 18:50.8 7 - - - 8 - - -

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