Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 22 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Brazil
Bronze medal   Uruguay
«1979
1987»

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 22 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Brian Goodell of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on August 22.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jeff Kostoff  United States 15:30.67
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marcelo Jucá  Brazil 15:33.01
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carlos Scanavino  Uruguay 15:36.07 NR
4 Mike O'Brien  United States 15:36.18
5 Alejandro Lecot  Argentina 15:41.74
6 Dave Shemilt  Canada 15:50.06
7 Bruce Berger  Canada 15:53.82
8 Roger Madruga  Brazil 16:26.91

References

  1. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. ^ Hickosports Results
  4. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  5. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  6. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  7. ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine