The Men's 1500m Freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 7 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The last Pan American Games champion was Bobby Hackett 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 The first round was held on July 7.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Peter Szmidt 15:56.05 Q 2 Djan Madruga 15:56.06 Q 3 Diego Quiroga 16:03.73 Q 4 Alex Baumann 16:10.92 Q 5 Brian Goodell 16:11.34 Q 6 Bobby Hackett 16:11.50 Q 7 Alejandro Lecot 16:13.26 Q 8 Scott Newkirk 16:21.45 Q 9 Tizoc Guemez 16:24.01 10 Filiberto Colon 16:24.22 NR 11 César Sánchez 16:26.68 12 Rafael Vidal 16:34.85 13 Carlos Scanavino 16:53.42 NR 14 Jorge Martinez 16:58.49 15 Oscar Moreno 17:00.75 NR 16 Roger Madruga 17:23.53 17 Jorge Sanchez 17:40.76 NR 18 Victor Masalles 18:32.65 NR
Final The final was held on July 7. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Brian Goodell 15:24.36 NR, GR Djan Madruga 15:41.74 Bobby Hackett 15:46.83 4 Peter Szmidt 15:56.91 5 Diego Quiroga 16:02.34 NR 6 Alejandro Lecot 16:04.63 NR 7 Scott Newkirk 16:08.36 NR 8 Alex Baumann 16:08.85
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