Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games

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Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games

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Swimming at the
1951 Pan American Games

Freestyle
100 m| men| women
200 m| | women
400 m| men| women
1500 m| men|
Backstroke
100 m| men| women
Breaststroke
200 m| men| women
Butterfly
100 m| | women
200 m| men|
Medley relay
4×100 m| men| women

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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][3][4]

## Event schedule

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## Results

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### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100m Freestyle
details | Dick Cleveland
United States | 58.8  | Ronald Gora
United States | 59.5  | Nicasio Silverio
Cuba | 1:00.1
400m Freestyle
details | Tetsuo Okamoto
Brazil | 4:52.4  | Bill Heusner
United States | 4:54.5  | Tonatiuh Gutiérrez
Mexico | 4:57.2
1500m Freestyle
details | Tetsuo Okamoto
Brazil | 19:23.3  | Tonatiuh Gutiérrez
Mexico | 19:24.5  | Efrén Fierro
Mexico | 19:57.4
100m Backstroke
details | Allen Stack
United States | 1:08.0  | Pedro Galvão
Argentina | 1:08.3  | Burwell Jones
United States | 1:09.8
200m Breaststroke
details | Héctor Domínguez
Argentina | 2:43.8  | Willy Otto Jordan
Brazil | 2:47.3  | Bowen Stassforth
United States | 2:47.6
4 × 200 m
Freestyle Relay
details |  United States
Ronald Gora
Burwell Jones
Dick Cleveland
Bill Heusner | 9:00.6  |  Brazil
Ricardo Capanema
Aram Boghossian
João Gonçalves Filho
Tetsuo Okamoto | 9:13.0  |  Argentina
Pedro Galvão
Carlos Alberto Bonacich
Jorge Vogt
César Guardo | 9:19.5
3×100m
Medley Relay  |  United States
Allen Stack
Bowen Stassforth
Dick Cleveland | 3:16.9  |  Argentina
Pedro Galvão
Orlando Cossani
César Guardo | 3:20.7  |  Mexico
Alberto Isaac
Clemente Mejía
Luis Spamer | 3:22.5

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100m Freestyle
details | Sharon Geary
United States | 1:08:4  | Jackie LaVine
United States | 1:09.9  | Ana María Schultz
Argentina | 1:10.7
200m Freestyle
details | Ana María Schultz
Argentina | 2:32.4  | Betty Brey
United States | 2:33.3  | Eileen Holt
Argentina | 2:36.5
400m Freestyle
details | Ana María Schultz
Argentina | 5:26.7  | Carolyn Green
United States | 5:33.1  | Piedade Coutinho
Brazil | 5:33.6
100m Backstroke
details | Maureen O'Brien
United States | 1:18.5  | Sheila Donahue
United States | 1:20.5  | Magda Bruggemann
Mexico | 1:21.4
200m Breaststroke
details | Dorotea Turnbull
Argentina | 3:08.4  | Beatriz Rohde
Argentina | 3:10.3  | Carol Pence
United States | 3:14.7
4 × 100 m
Freestyle Relay
details |  United States
Carolyn Green
Sharon Geary
Jackie LaVine
Betty Brey | 4:37.1  |  Argentina
Ana María Schultz
Eileen Holt
Cristina Kujath
Emma Gondona | 4:48.1  |  Brazil
Talita Rodrigues
Idamis Busin
Ana Lucia Santa Rita
Piedade Coutinho | 5:03.6
3×100m
Medley Relay  |  United States
Sharon Geary
Carol Pence
Maureen O'Brien | 3:49.3  |  Argentina
Ana María Schultz
Nélida I. Del Roscio
Aurora Otero Rey | 3:59.7  |  Mexico
Magda Bruggemann
Charlotte Knapp
Adriana Hernández | 4:13.2

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States| 8| 6| 3| 17
2|  Argentina| 4| 5| 3| 12
3|  Brazil| 2| 2| 2| 6
4|  Mexico| 0| 1| 5| 6
5|  Cuba| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (5 entries)| 14| 14| 14| 42

## References

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1. ^ 1951 Pan Ams Aquatics history Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, 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.
3. ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. Editora Planeta. ISBN 978-8576652809.

* Hickok Sports: Pan American Games Women's Swimming Medalists at archive.today (archived 2012-12-05)
* Sports 123: Swimming at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-10-03)
* Folha Online
* Olderr, Steven (2009). The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786443369. ISBN 9780786443369.

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