Swimming at the 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][3][4]

Main article: 1951 Pan American Games

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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	Bill 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 × 200 m   Freestyle Relay	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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m Freestyle	Sharon Geary    United States	1:08:4	Jackie LaVine    United States	1:09.9	Ana María Schultz    Argentina	1:10.7
200m Freestyle	Ana María Schultz    Argentina	2:32.4	Betty Brey    United States	2:33.3	Eileen Holt    Argentina	2:36.5
400m Freestyle	Ana María Schultz    Argentina	5:26.7	Carolyn Green    United States	5:33.1	Piedade Coutinho    Brazil	5:33.6
100m Backstroke	Maureen O'Brien    United States	1:18.5	Sheila Donahue    United States	1:20.5	Magda Bruggemann    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 × 100 m   Freestyle Relay	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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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 nations)		14	14	14	42

References

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 8576652803.

• 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 0786443367. ISBN 9780786443369.