Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle


The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 10 August. The last Pan American Games champion was Mike Burton of US.
This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on August 10.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Pat Miles16:32.0GR
Tom McBreen16:33.0
Guillermo García16:45.6
4Jorge Delgado16:53.1
5Gustavo Sisson17:06.8
6Ron Jacks17:07.6
7Jorge Urrueta17:24.0
8Alfredo Machado17:25.1