Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

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Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2015 Pan American Games
VenueCIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House
DatesJuly 18 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors17 from 12 nations
Winning time15:06.40
Medalists
Gold medal   Canada
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Brazil
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 18 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Arthur Frayler of the United States.

This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool in freestyle. All participating swimmers would take part in 3 heats based on qualifying time. There were no finals.[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record  Sun Yang (CHN) 14:31.02 London, Great Britain August 4, 2012
Pan American Games record  Chip Peterson (USA) 15:12.33 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 21, 2007

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
18 July Final Ryan Cochrane  Canada 15:06.40 GR

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (15:48.39) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2014 to May 1, 2015). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (16:45.29) in the same qualifying period.[2] All other competing athletes were entered as universality spots.[2]

Schedule

All times are

UTC-4
).

Date Time Round
July 18, 2015 10:39 Finals 1–2
July 18, 2015 20:08 Final 3

Results

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Final

The finals were held on July 18.[3]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 3 4 Ryan Cochrane  Canada 15:06.40 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 5 Andrew Gemmell  United States 15:09.92
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 3 Brandonn Almeida  Brazil 15:11.70 NR
4 3 1 Marcelo Acosta  El Salvador 15:16.26
5 3 6 Nelson Maitland  Canada 15:16.35
6 3 2 Ryan Feeley  United States 15:19.99
7 3 7 Lucas Kanieski  Brazil 15:23.91
8 3 8 Mateo de Angulo  Colombia 15:24.27
9 2 6 Ricardo Vargas  Mexico 15:27.23
10 2 4 Alejandro Gomez  Venezuela 15:27.30
11 2 2
Arturo Perez Vertti
 Mexico 15:42.39
12 1 3 Tomas Peribonio  Ecuador 15:43.36
13 2 5
Martin Naidich
 Argentina 15:46.99
14 2 7 Christian Bayo  Puerto Rico 15:49.47
15 2 3 Andy Arteta  Venezuela 15:56.57
16 1 4 Felipe Tapia  Chile 16:08.48
17 1 5 Gustavo Gutierrez  Peru 16:08.75
2 1 Yeziel Morales  Puerto Rico DNS

References

  1. TO2015
    . 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  2. ^
    TO2015. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  3. ^ Men's 1500m Freestyle - Finals