The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 5 August at the Pan Am Pool. The last Pan American Games champion was Josh Davis 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 eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.Swimming technical manual
Luiz Lima won the gold medal, breaking a string of 11 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only other non-American had won the race, his compatriot Tetsuo Okamoto, in the first edition of the Games in 1951.
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 5.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Rick Say 3:56.98 Q 2 Austin Ramirez 3:57.02 Q 3 - - - Q 4 - - - Q 5 - - - Q 6 - - - Q 7 Nat Lewis 3:59.16 Q 8 - - - Q
B Final The B final was held on August 5.1999 Full results by Swimnews Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9 Josh Ilika 3:59.82 10 Cassiano Leal 4:00.04 11 Giancarlo Zolezzi 4:04.11 12 Manuel Colmenares 4:05.64 13 Sebastien Paddington 4:10.20
A Final The A final was held on August 5. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Luiz Lima 3:52.25 SA Austin Ramirez 3:53.64 Rick Say 3:54.66 4 Mark Johnston 3:56.68 5 Alejandro Bermúdez 3:57.77 6 Ricardo Monasterio 3:58.65 7 Damian Alleyne 3:58.90 8 Nat Lewis 3:58.99
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