Swimming at the 1999 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 1999 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Pool
Dates	August 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Luiz Lima    Brazil   Austin Ramirez    United States   Rick Say    Canada
«1995 2003»

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 5 August at the Pan Am Pool. ^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Josh Davis of US. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke. ^[8]

Luiz Lima won the gold medal, breaking a string of 11 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only other non-American had won the race, his compatriot Tetsuo Okamoto, in the first edition of the Games in 1951.

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

The first round was held on August 5. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rick Say	Canada	3:56.98	Q
2	Austin Ramirez	United States	3:57.02	Q
3	-	-	-	Q
4	-	-	-	Q
5	-	-	-	Q
6	-	-	-	Q
7	Nat Lewis	United States	3:59.16	Q
8	-	-	-	Q

B Final

The B final was held on August 5. ^[9]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	Josh Ilika	Mexico	3:59.82
10	Cassiano Leal	Brazil	4:00.04
11	Giancarlo Zolezzi	Chile	4:04.11
12	Manuel Colmenares	Venezuela	4:05.64
13	Sebastien Paddington	Trinidad and Tobago	4:10.20

A Final

The A final was held on August 5. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Luiz Lima	Brazil	3:52.25	SA
	Austin Ramirez	United States	3:53.64
	Rick Say	Canada	3:54.66
4	Mark Johnston	Canada	3:56.68
5	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	3:57.77
6	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	3:58.65
7	Damian Alleyne	Barbados	3:58.90
8	Nat Lewis	United States	3:58.99

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 7 November 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 2013-11-07.
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
9. 1999 Full results by Swimnews