Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games

Main article: 1951 Pan American Games

Swimming at the 1st Pan American Games took place February 26-March 7, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1] Preliminary heats were held February 26-28, with final heats being swum on March 2, 4, 6 and 7.[2]

Contents

Event schedule

Results

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100m Freestyle Dick Cleveland
  United States		 58.8 Ronald Gora
  United States		 59.5 Nicasio Silverio
  Cuba		 1:00.1
400m Freestyle Tetsuo Okamoto
  Brazil		 4:52.4 William Heusner
  United States		 4:54.5 Tonatiuh Gutiérrez
  Mexico		 4:57.2
1500m Freestyle Tetsuo Okamoto
  Brazil		 19:23.3 Tonatiuh Gutiérrez
  Mexico		 19:24.5 Efrén Fierro
  Mexico		 19:57.4
100m Backstroke Allen Stack
  United States		 1:08.0 Pedro Galvão
  Argentina		 1:08.3 Burwell Jones
  United States		 1:09.8
200m Breaststroke Héctor Domínguez
  Argentina		 2:43.8 Willy Otto Jordan
  Brazil		 2:47.3 Bowen Stassforth
  United States		 2:47.6
4×200m
  Freestyle Relay		 United States
  Ronald Gora
  Burwell Jones
  Dick Cleveland
  William Heusner		 9:00.6 Brazil
  Ricardo Capanema
  Aram Boghossian
  João Gonçalves
  Tetsuo Okamoto		 9:19.5 Argentina 9:19.5
3×100m
  Medley Relay		 United States
  Allen Stack
  Bowen Stassforth
  Dick Cleveland		 3:16.9 Argentina 3:20.7 Mexico 3:22.5

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100m Freestyle Sharon Geary
  United States		 1:08:4 Jacqueline Lavine
  United States		 1:09.9 Ana María Schultz
  Argentina		 1:10.6
200m Freestyle Ana María Schultz
  Argentina		 2:32.4 Betty Mullen
  United States		 2:32.3 Eileen Holt
  Argentina		 2:36.5
400m Freestyle Ana María Schultz
  Argentina		 5:26.7 Carolyn Green
  United States		 5:33.1 Piedade Tavares
  Brazil		 5:33.6
100m Backstroke Maureen O'Brien
  United States		 1:18.6 Sheila Donahue
  United States		 1:20.5 Magda Bruggeman
  Mexico		 1:21.4
200m Breaststroke Dorotea Turnbull
  Argentina		 3:08.4 Beatriz Rohde
  Argentina		 3:10.3 Carol Pence
  United States		 3:14.7
4×100m
  Freestyle Relay		 United States
  Carol Green
  Sharon Geary
  Jacqueline Lavine
  Betty Mullen		 4:37.1 Argentina 4:48.1 Brazil
  Talita Rodrigues
  Idamis Busin
  Ana Lucia Santa Rita
  Piedade Tavares		 5:03.6
3×100m
  Medley Relay		 United States
  Sharon Geary
  Carol Pence
  Maureen O'Brien		 3:49.3 Argentina 3:59.7 Mexico 4:13.2

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
# United States 8 6 3 17
# Argentina 4 5 3 12
# Brazil 2 2 2 6
# Mexico 0 1 5 6
# Cuba 0 0 1 1

References

  1. ^ 1951 Pan Ams Aquatics history, published by the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2011-10 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Games. Retrieved from the ISHOF website on 2011-11-08.
  2. ^ Swimming program from the 1951 Pan American Games, pages 18-19. Published 1951.