Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games

Swimming at the I959 Pan American Games
Swimming at the I959 Pan American Games
	«1955 1963»

The Swimming competition at the 3rd Pan American Games was held in Chicago, United States during the Games' run in 1959. It consisted of 16 long course (50 m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

In these Games, the U.S. swept all gold medals in swimming.

A world record was broken by the U.S. in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay, with a time of 4:44.6.

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Jeffrey Farrell USA	56.3	Elton Follett USA	57.2	William Woolsey USA	57.6
400 m freestyle	George Breen USA	4:31.4	George Harrison USA	4:31.8	Eugene Lenz USA	4:34.9
1500 m freestyle	Alan Somers USA	17:53.2	George Breen USA	17:55.0	Gary Heinrich USA	18:30.6

100 m backstroke	Frank McKinney USA	1:03.6	Charles Bittick USA	1:04.2	Louis Schaeffer USA	1:05.3

200 m breaststroke	Bill Mulliken USA	2:43.1	Kenneth Nakasone USA	2:43.2	Manuel Sanguily Cuba	2:44.3

200 m butterfly	Dave Gillanders USA	2:18.0	Michael Troy USA	2:18.3	Eulalio Ríos Mexico	2:22.5

4 × 200 m Free Relay	United States Dick Blick Peter Sintz John Rounsavelle Frank Winters	8:22.7	Mexico Raúl Guzmán Alfredo Guzmán Jorge Escalante Mauricio Ocampo	8:56.4	Canada Cameron Grout Edward Cazalet William Campbell Thomas Verth	9:00.4
4 × 100 m Medley Relay	United States Frank McKinney Kenneth Nakasone Mike Troy Jeff Farrell	4:14.9	Canada Cameron Grout Bob Wheaton Steve Rabinovitch Peter Fowler	4:23.3	Mexico Eulalio Ríos Alejandro Gaxiola Jorge Escalante Roberto Marmolejo	4:25.0

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Chris von Saltza USA	1:03.8	Molly Botkin USA	1:05.7	Joan Spillane USA	1:05.8
200 m freestyle	Chris von Saltza USA	2:18.5	Shirley Stobs USA	2:22.9	Joan Spillane USA	2:23.0
400 m freestyle	Chris von Saltza USA	4:55.9	Sylvia Ruuska USA	5:03.4	Donna Graham USA	5:03.5

100 m backstroke	Carin Cone USA	1:12.2	Sara Barber Canada	1:12.3	Christine Kluter USA	1:12.4

200 m breaststroke	Anne Warner USA	2:56.8	Patty Kemper USA	3:00.1	Anne Brancroft USA	3:01.3

100 m butterfly	Becky Collins USA	1:09.5	Nancy Ramey USA	1:10.4	Molly Botkin USA	1:12.3

4 × 100 m Free Relay	United States Molly Botkin Joan Spillane Shirley Stobs Chris von Saltza	4:17.5	Canada Margaret Iwasaki Helen Hunt Sara Barber Sandra Scott	4:31.9	Mexico Blanca Barrón María Luisa Souza Gloria Botella Rebeca García	4:37.0
4 × 100 m Medley Relay	United States Carin Cone Anne Brancroft Becky Collins Chris von Saltza	4:44.6 WR	Canada Margaret Iwasaki Janice Shepp Sara Barber Sandra Scott	4:58.7	Mexico Blanca Barrón Eulalia Martínez Gloria Botella Rebeca García	5:18.7

^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
^ Resultados
^ All Pan medalists - Male
^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
^ Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. Editora Planeta. ISBN 8576652803.