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

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Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 1999 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue Pan Am Pool
DatesAugust 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
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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]

Contents

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:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

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

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Rick Say Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:56.98Q
2 Austin Ramirez Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:57.02Q
3---Q
4---Q
5---Q
6---Q
7 Nat Lewis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:59.16Q
8---Q

B Final

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

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
9 Josh Ilika Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 3:59.82
10 Cassiano Leal Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:00.04
11 Giancarlo Zolezzi Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 4:04.11
12 Manuel Colmenares Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 4:05.64
13 Sebastien Paddington Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 4:10.20

A Final

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

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Luiz Lima Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:52.25 SA
Silver medal icon.svg Austin Ramirez Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:53.64
Bronze medal icon.svg Rick Say Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:54.66
4 Mark Johnston Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:56.68
5 Alejandro Bermúdez Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 3:57.77
6 Ricardo Monasterio Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 3:58.65
7 Damian Alleyne Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 3:58.90
8 Nat Lewis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:58.99

References

  1. 1 2 3 "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