Swimming at the I959 Pan American Games
«1955 1963»

Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m		women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The Swimming competition at the 3rd Pan American Games was held in Chicago, United States during the Games' run in 1959. It consisted of 16 long course (50 m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

In these Games, the U.S. swept all gold medals in swimming.

A world record was broken by the U.S. in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay, with a time of 4:44.6.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m freestyle   details	Jeffrey Farrell   USA	56.3	Elton Follett   USA	57.2	William Woolsey   USA	57.6
400m freestyle   details	George Breen   USA	4:31.4	George Harrison   USA	4:31.8	Eugene Lenz   USA	4:34.9
1500m freestyle   details	Alan Somers   USA	17:53.2	George Breen   USA	17:55.0	Gary Heinrich   USA	18:30.6
100m backstroke   details	Frank McKinney   USA	1:03.6	Charles Bittick   USA	1:04.2	Louis Schaeffer   USA	1:05.3
200m breaststroke   details	Bill Mulliken   USA	2:43.1	Kenneth Nakasone   USA	2:43.2	Manuel Sanguily   Cuba	2:44.3
200m butterfly   details	Dave Gillanders   USA	2:18.0	Michael Troy   USA	2:18.3	Eulalio Ríos   Mexico	2:22.5
4 × 200 m  Free Relay   details	United States   Dick Blick   Peter Sintz   John Rounsavelle   Frank Winters	8:22.7	Mexico   Raúl Guzmán   Alfredo Guzmán   Jorge Escalante   Mauricio Ocampo	8:56.4	Canada   Cameron Grout   Edward Cazalet   William Campbell   Thomas Verth	9:00.4
4 × 100 m  Medley Relay   details	United States   Frank McKinney   Kenneth Nakasone   Mike Troy   Jeff Farrell	4:14.9	Canada   Cameron Grout   Bob Wheaton   Steve Rabinovitch   Peter Fowler	4:23.3	Mexico   Eulalio Ríos   Alejandro Gaxiola   Jorge Escalante   Roberto Marmolejo	4:25.0

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m freestyle   details	Chris von Saltza   USA	1:03.8	Molly Botkin   USA	1:05.7	Joan Spillane   USA	1:05.8
200m freestyle   details	Chris von Saltza   USA	2:18.5	Shirley Stobs   USA	2:22.9	Joan Spillane   USA	2:23.0
400m freestyle   details	Chris von Saltza   USA	4:55.9	Sylvia Ruuska   USA	5:03.4	Donna Graham   USA	5:03.5
100m backstroke   details	Carin Cone   USA	1:12.2	Sara Barber   Canada	1:12.3	Christine Kluter   USA	1:12.4
200m breaststroke   details	Anne Warner   USA	2:56.8	Patty Kemper   USA	3:00.1	Anne Brancroft   USA	3:01.3
100m butterfly   details	Becky Collins   USA	1:09.5	Nancy Ramey   USA	1:10.4	Molly Botkin   USA	1:12.3
4 × 100 m  Free Relay   details	United States   Molly Botkin   Joan Spillane   Shirley Stobs   Chris von Saltza	4:17.5	Canada   Margaret Iwasaki   Helen Hunt   Sara Barber   Sandra Scott	4:31.9	Mexico   Blanca Barrón   María Luisa Souza   Gloria Botella   Rebeca García	4:37.0
4 × 100 m  Medley Relay   details	United States   Carin Cone   Anne Brancroft   Becky Collins   Chris von Saltza	4:44.6 WR	Canada   Margaret Iwasaki   Janice Shepp   Sara Barber   Sandra Scott	4:58.7	Mexico   Blanca Barrón   Eulalia Martínez   Gloria Botella   Rebeca García	5:18.7

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	16	11	10	37
2	Canada	0	4	1	5
3	Mexico	0	1	4	5
4	Cuba	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		16	16	16	48