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]

Swimming at the 1967 Pan American Games
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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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 Freestyle
  details
Don Havens
    USA
53.79 Zac Zorn
    USA
53.97 Sandy Gilchrist
    Canada
54.85
200 Freestyle
  details
Don Schollander
    USA
1:56.01
  WR
Ralph Hutton
    Canada
1:58.44 Julio Arango
    Colombia
2:01.77
400 Freestyle
  details
Greg Charlton
    USA
4:10.23 Ralph Hutton
    Canada
4:11.88 Mike Burton
    USA
4:15.74
1500 Freestyle
  details
Mike Burton
    USA
16:44.40 Ralph Hutton
    Canada
16:51.81 Andy Strenk
    USA
17:03.43
100 Backstroke
  details
Charlie Hickcox
    USA
1:01.19 Fred Haywood
    USA
1:02.45 Jim Shaw
    Canada
1:02.87
200 Backstroke
  details
Ralph Hutton
    Canada
2:12.55 Charlie Hickcox
    USA
2:13.05 Charles Goettsche
    USA
2:15.94
100 Breaststroke
  details
José Sylvio Fiolo
    Brazil
1:07.52 Russell Webb
    USA
1:09.13 Ken Merten
    USA
1:09.32
200 Breaststroke
  details
José Sylvio Fiolo
    Brazil
2:30.42 Robert Momsen
    USA
2:31.01 Ken Merten
    USA
2:34.17
100 Butterfly
  details
Mark Spitz
    USA
56.20
  WR
Ross Wales
    USA
57.04 Luis Nicolao
    Argentina
58.63
200 Butterfly
  details
Mark Spitz
    USA
2:06.42
  WR
Tom Arusoo
    Canada
2:10.70 Mike Burton
    USA
2:13.26
200 I.M.
  details
Doug Russell
    USA
2:13.22 William Utley
    USA
2:13.68 Sandy Gilchrist
    Canada
2:16.61
400 I.M.
  details
William Utley
    USA
4:48.12 Ken Webb
    USA
4:50.89 Sandy Gilchrist
    Canada
4:55.60
4×100
 Free Relay
  details
  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
  details
  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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 Freestyle
  details
Erika Bricker
    USA
1:00.89 Marion Lay
    Canada
1:01.02 Lillian Watson
    USA
1:01.54
200 Freestyle
  details
Pam Kruse
    USA
2:11.91 Marion Lay
    Canada
2:14.68 Angela Coughlan
    Canada
2:15.66
400 Freestyle
  details
Debbie Meyer
    USA
4:32.64
WR
Pam Kruse
    USA
4:42.81 Angela Coughlan
    Canada
4:48.88
800 Freestyle
  details
Debbie Meyer
    USA
9:22.86
WR
Susan Pedersen
    USA
9:38.37 Angela Coughlan
    Canada
9:48.56
100 Backstroke
  details
Elaine Tanner
    Canada
1:07.32
WR
Kaye Hall
    USA
1:09.76 Shirley Cazalet
    Canada
1:11.33
200 Backstroke
  details
Elaine Tanner
    Canada
2:24.55
WR
Kendis Moore
    USA
2:30.38 Cathy Ferguson
    USA
2:32.48
100 Breaststroke
  details
Catie Ball
    USA
1:14.80
WR
Ana María Norbis
    Uruguay
1:15.95 Cynthia Goyette
    USA
1:19.39
200 Breaststroke
  details
Catie Ball
    USA
2:42.18 Claudia Kolb
    USA
2:48.93 Ana María Norbis
    Uruguay
2:52.11
100 Butterfly
  details
Ellie Daniel
    USA
1:05.24 Elaine Tanner
    Canada
1:05.35 Marilyn Corson
    Canada
1:07.68
200 Butterfly
  details
Claudia Kolb
    USA
2:25.49 Lee Davis
    USA
2:26.74 Marilyn Corson
    Canada
2:30.54
200 I.M.
  details
Claudia Kolb
    USA
2:26.06
WR
Susan Pedersen
    USA
2:30.91 Sandra Dowler
    Canada
2:36.18
400 I.M.
  details
Claudia Kolb
    USA
5:09.68
WR
Susan Pedersen
    USA
5:21.57 Marilyn Corson
    Canada
5:36.75
4×100
 Free Relay
  details
  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

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States2416949
2  Canada3121227
3  Brazil2013
4  Uruguay0123
5  Argentina0033
6  Colombia0011
  Puerto Rico0011
Totals (7 entries)29292987

References

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  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 978-8576652809.
  4. ^ "Brazil medals at 1967 Pan". UOL (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2013.