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 (50 m) events: 15 for males and 14 for females:Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
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 Men 100 Freestyle Don Havens USA 53.79 Zac Zorn USA 53.97 Sandy Gilchrist Canada 54.85 200 Freestyle Don Schollander USA 1:56.01 WR Ralph Hutton Canada 1:58.44 Julio Arango Colombia 2:01.77 400 Freestyle Greg Charlton USA 4:10.23 Ralph Hutton Canada 4:11.88 Mike Burton USA 4:15.74 1500 Freestyle Mike Burton USA 16:44.40 Ralph Hutton Canada 16:51.81 Andy Strenk USA 17:03.43 100 Backstroke Charlie Hickcox USA 1:01.19 Fred Haywood USA 1:02.45 Jim Shaw Canada 1:02.87 200 Backstroke Ralph Hutton Canada 2:12.55 Charlie Hickcox USA 2:13.05 Charles Goettsche USA 2:15.94 100 Breaststroke José Sylvio Fiolo Brazil 1:07.52 Russell Webb USA 1:09.13 Ken Merten USA 1:09.32 200 Breaststroke José Sylvio Fiolo Brazil 2:30.42 Robert Momsen USA 2:31.01 Ken Merten USA 2:34.17 100 Butterfly Mark Spitz USA 56.20 WR Ross Wales USA 57.04 Luis Nicolao Argentina 58.63 200 Butterfly Mark Spitz USA 2:06.42 WR Tom Arusoo Canada 2:10.70 Mike Burton USA 2:13.26 200 I.M. Doug Russell USA 2:13.22 William Utley USA 2:13.68 Sandy Gilchrist Canada 2:16.61 400 I.M. William Utley USA 4:48.12 Ken Webb USA 4:50.89 Sandy Gilchrist Canada 4:55.60 4 × 100 Free Relay Ken Walsh Mike Fitzmaurice Mark Spitz Don Schollander 3:34.08 Ralph Hutton Robert Kasting Sandy Gilchrist Ron Jacks 3:40.82 Mario de Lucca Carlos Van der Maath Juan Carranza Luis Nicolao 3:45.50 4 × 200 Free Relay Don Schollander Charlie Hickcox Greg Charlton Mark Spitz 8:00.46 Sandy Gilchrist Ron Jacks Robert Kasting Ralph Hutton 8:07.16 Héctor Scerbo Mario de Lucca Carlos Van der Maath Luis Nicolao 8:19.48 4 × 100 Medley Relay Doug Russell Russell Webb Mark Spitz Ken Walsh 3:59.31 William Mahony Sandy Gilchrist Ron Jacks Jim Shaw 4:04.29 Ilson Asturiano João Costa Lima Neto José Sylvio Fiolo Waldyr Ramos 4:06.64 SA
Women 100 Freestyle Erika Bricker USA 1:00.89 Marion Lay Canada 1:01.02 Lillian Watson USA 1:01.54 200 Freestyle Pam Kruse USA 2:11.91 Marion Lay Canada 2:14.68 Angela Coughlan Canada 2:15.66 400 Freestyle Debbie Meyer USA 4:32.64 WR Pam Kruse USA 4:42.81 Angela Coughlan Canada 4:48.88 800 Freestyle Debbie Meyer USA 9:22.86 WR Susan Pedersen USA 9:38.37 Angela Coughlan Canada 9:48.56 100 Backstroke Elaine Tanner Canada 1:07.32 WR Kaye Hall USA 1:09.76 Shirley Cazalet Canada 1:11.33 200 Backstroke Elaine Tanner Canada 2:24.55 WR Kendis Moore USA 2:30.38 Cathy Ferguson USA 2:32.48 100 Breaststroke Catie Ball USA 1:14.80 WR Ana María Norbis Uruguay 1:15.95 Cynthia Goyette USA 1:19.39 200 Breaststroke Catie Ball USA 2:42.18 Claudia Kolb USA 2:48.93 Ana María Norbis Uruguay 2:52.11 100 Butterfly Ellie Daniel USA 1:05.24 Elaine Tanner Canada 1:05.35 Marilyn Corson Canada 1:07.68 200 Butterfly Claudia Kolb USA 2:25.49 Lee Davis USA 2:26.74 Marilyn Corson Canada 2:30.54 200 I.M. Claudia Kolb USA 2:26.06 WR Susan Pedersen USA 2:30.91 Sandra Dowler Canada 2:36.18 400 I.M. Claudia Kolb USA 5:09.68 WR Susan Pedersen USA 5:21.57 Marilyn Corson Canada 5:36.75 4 × 100 Free Relay Wendy Fordyce Pam Carpinelli Linda Gustavson Pam Kruse 4:04.57 Marion Lay Angela Coughlan Elaine Tanner Sandra Smith 4:09.73 Ana Marcial Kristina Moir Melanie Laporte Anita Lallande 4:26.56 4 × 100 Medley Relay Kendis Moore Catie Ball Ellie Daniel Wendy Fordyce 4:30.0 WR Elaine Tanner Donna Ross Marilyn Corson Marion Lay 4:40.88 Themis Trama Ana Norbis Lylian Castillo Ruth Apt 4:49.27
Medal table
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