Swimming at the 1967 Pan American Games

The Swimming competition at the 5th Pan American Games was held at the Pan Am Pool in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, during the Games' run in 1967. It consisted of 29 long course (50m) events: 15 for males and 14 for females:[1][2][3]

Main article: 1967 Pan American Games

The 1967 Pan Ams marked several firsts for the Games:

• It was the first time touch pads were used marking them to the hundredth-of-a-second (previous Games were to tenths-of-a-second only)
• It was the first time the Individual Medleys were swum;
• The 200 race distances for freestyle and backstroke were swum for the first time;
• The 100 meter Breaststroke was swum for the first time.
• Uruguay won, for the first time, medals in swimming: there were 3, won by the country's women's swimming.
• Puerto Rico also won, for the first time, a medal in swimming at the Pan American Games: a bronze in the women's 4 × 100 m free relay.

During the 1967 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, 11 world records were beaten in swimming. It is the record of all editions of the championship, a record that will probably never be beaten.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 Freestyle	Don Havens   USA	53.79	Zac Zorn   USA	53.97	Sandy Gilchrist   Canada	54.85
200 Freestyle	Don Schollander   USA	1:56.01   WR	Ralph Hutton   Canada	1:58.44	Julio Arango   Colombia	2:01.77
400 Freestyle	Greg Charlton   USA	4:10.23	Ralph Hutton   Canada	4:11.88	Mike Burton   USA	4:15.74
1500 Freestyle	Mike Burton   USA	16:44.40	Ralph Hutton   Canada	16:51.81	Andy Strenk   USA	17:03.43
100 Backstroke	Charlie Hickcox   USA	1:01.19	Fred Haywood   USA	1:02.45	Jim Shaw   Canada	1:02.87
200 Backstroke	Ralph Hutton   Canada	2:12.55	Charlie Hickcox   USA	2:13.05	Charles Goettsche   USA	2:15.94
100 Breaststroke	José Sylvio Fiolo   Brazil	1:07.52	Russell Webb   USA	1:09.13	Ken Merten   USA	1:09.32
200 Breaststroke	José Sylvio Fiolo   Brazil	2:30.42	Robert Momsen   USA	2:31.01	Ken Merten   USA	2:34.17
100 Butterfly	Mark Spitz   USA	56.20   WR	Ross Wales   USA	57.04	Luis Nicolao   Argentina	58.63
200 Butterfly	Mark Spitz   USA	2:06.42   WR	Tom Arusoo   Canada	2:10.70	Mike Burton   USA	2:13.26
200 I.M.	Doug Russell   USA	2:13.22	William Utley   USA	2:13.68	Sandy Gilchrist   Canada	2:16.61
400 I.M.	William Utley   USA	4:48.12	Ken Webb   USA	4:50.89	Sandy Gilchrist   Canada	4:55.60
4×100  Free Relay	United States   Ken Walsh   Mike Fitzmaurice   Mark Spitz   Don Schollander	3:34.08	Canada   Ralph Hutton   Robert Kasting   Sandy Gilchrist   Ron Jacks	3:40.82	Argentina   Mario de Lucca   Carlos Van der Maath   Juan Carranza   Luis Nicolao	3:45.50
4×200  Free Relay	United States   Don Schollander   Charlie Hickcox   Greg Charlton   Mark Spitz	8:00.46	Canada   Sandy Gilchrist   Ron Jacks   Robert Kasting   Ralph Hutton	8:07.16	Argentina   Héctor Scerbo   Mario de Lucca   Carlos Van der Maath   Luis Nicolao	8:19.48
4×100  Medley Relay [4]	United States   Doug Russell   Russell Webb   Mark Spitz   Ken Walsh	3:59.31	Canada   William Mahony   Sandy Gilchrist   Ron Jacks   Jim Shaw	4:04.29	Brazil   Ilson Asturiano   João Costa Lima Neto   José Sylvio Fiolo   Waldyr Ramos	4:06.64 SA

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 Freestyle	Erika Bricker   USA	1:00.89	Marion Lay   Canada	1:01.02	Lillian Watson   USA	1:01.54
200 Freestyle	Pam Kruse   USA	2:11.91	Marion Lay   Canada	2:14.68	Angela Coughlan   Canada	2:15.66
400 Freestyle	Debbie Meyer   USA	4:32.64 WR	Pam Kruse   USA	4:42.81	Angela Coughlan   Canada	4:48.88
800 Freestyle	Debbie Meyer   USA	9:22.86 WR	Susan Pedersen   USA	9:38.37	Angela Coughlan   Canada	9:48.56
100 Backstroke	Elaine Tanner   Canada	1:07.32 WR	Kaye Hall   USA	1:09.76	Shirley Cazalet   Canada	1:11.33
200 Backstroke	Elaine Tanner   Canada	2:24.55 WR	Kendis Moore   USA	2:30.38	Cathy Ferguson   USA	2:32.48
100 Breaststroke	Catie Ball   USA	1:14.80 WR	Ana María Norbis   Uruguay	1:15.95	Cynthia Goyette   USA	1:19.39
200 Breaststroke	Catie Ball   USA	2:42.18	Claudia Kolb   USA	2:48.93	Ana María Norbis   Uruguay	2:52.11
100 Butterfly	Ellie Daniel   USA	1:05.24	Elaine Tanner   Canada	1:05.35	Marilyn Corson   Canada	1:07.68
200 Butterfly	Claudia Kolb   USA	2:25.49	Lee Davis   USA	2:26.74	Marilyn Corson   Canada	2:30.54
200 I.M.	Claudia Kolb   USA	2:26.06 WR	Susan Pedersen   USA	2:30.91	Sandra Dowler   Canada	2:36.18
400 I.M.	Claudia Kolb   USA	5:09.68 WR	Susan Pedersen   USA	5:21.57	Marilyn Corson   Canada	5:36.75
4×100  Free Relay	United States   Wendy Fordyce   Pam Carpinelli   Linda Gustavson   Pam Kruse	4:04.57	Canada   Marion Lay   Angela Coughlan   Elaine Tanner   Sandra Smith	4:09.73	Puerto Rico   Ana Marcial   Kristina Moir   Melanie Laporte   Anita Lallande	4:26.56
4×100  Medley Relay	United States   Kendis Moore   Catie Ball   Ellie Daniel   Wendy Fordyce	4:30.0 WR	Canada   Elaine Tanner   Donna Ross   Marilyn Corson   Marion Lay	4:40.88	Uruguay   Themis Trama   Ana Norbis   Lylian Castillo   Ruth Apt	4:49.27

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	24	16	9	49
2	Canada	3	12	12	27
3	Brazil	2	0	1	3
4	Uruguay	0	1	2	3
5	Argentina	0	0	3	3
6	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		29	29	29	87

References

1. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
2. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
3. Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. Editora Planeta. ISBN 8576652803.
4. "Brazil medals at 1967 Pan". UOL (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2013.