Swimming at the 1963 Pan American Games

The Swimming competition at the 4th Pan American Games was held in São Paulo, Brazil during the Games' run in 1963. It consisted of 16 long course (50m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

In these Games, the U.S. earned all gold medals that were in dispute in swimming.

Venezuela won for the first time a medal, a bronze in the women's 4x100m medley relay.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m freestyle	Steve Clark   USA	54.7	Steven Jackman   USA	54.8	Daniel Sherry   Canada	56.1
400m freestyle	Roy Saari   USA	4:19.3	Don Schollander   USA	4:23.3	Sandy Gilchrist   Canada	4:29.1
1500m freestyle	Roy Saari   USA	17:26.2	Sandy Gilchrist   Canada	17:58.9	Ralph Hutton   Canada	18:08.6
100m backstroke	Ed Bartsch   USA	1:01.5	Charles Bittick   USA	1:02.1	Athos de Oliveira   Brazil	1:03.2
200m breaststroke	Chet Jastremski   USA	2:35.4	Ken Merten   USA	2:38.4	John Kelso   Canada	2:41.4
200m butterfly	Carl Robie   USA	2:11.3	Fred Schmidt   USA	2:13.3	Luis Nicolao   Argentina	2:16.1
4×200m  free Relay	United States   Gary Ilman   Richard McDonough   David Lyons   Ed Townsend	8:16.9	Canada   Ralph Hutton   Alowin Meinhardt   Ed Casalet   Sandy Gilchrist	8:33.0	Brazil   Athos de Oliveira   Antonio Renzo Filho   Antonio Celso Guimarães   Peter Wolfgang Metzner	8:41.4
4×100m  medley Relay	United States   Richard McGeagh   Bill Craig   Walter Richardson   Nicholas Kirby	4:05.6	Argentina   Carlos Van der Maath   Alberto Pérez   Luis Nicolao   Abel Pepe	4:17.3	Canada   Ed Casalet   John Kelso   Daniel Sherry   Sandy Gilchrist	4:17.5

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m freestyle	Terri Stickles   USA	1:02.8	Mary Stewart   Canada	1:03.3	Kathleen Ellis   USA	1:03.5
200m freestyle	Robyn Johnson   USA	2:17.5	Terri Stickles   USA	2:18.4	Lynne Pomfret   Canada	2:28.4
400m freestyle	Sharon Finneran   USA	4:52.7	Robyn Johnson   USA	4:56.1	Lynne Pomfret   Canada	5:20.4
100m backstroke	Nina Harmer   USA	1:11.5	Cathy Ferguson   USA	1:13.1	Eileen Weir   Canada	1:14.5
200m breaststroke	Alice Driscoll   USA	2:56.2	Roby Whipple   USA	2:57.7	Marjon Wilmink   Canada	3:00.0
100m butterfly	Kathleen Ellis   USA	1:07.6	Mary Stewart   Canada	1:08.9	Kim Worley   USA	1:11.6
4×100m  free Relay	United States   Elizabeth MacCleary   Sharon Stouder   Judy Norton   Donna de Varona	4:15.7	Canada   Lynne Pomfret   Sharon Pierce   Eileen Weir   Mary Stewart	4:31.7	Brazil   Eliana Souza Motta   Maria Lourdes Teixeira   Angela Maria Palioli   Vera Maria Formiga	4:34.3
4×100m  medley Relay	United States   Ginny Duenkel   Cynthia Goyette   Sharon Stouder   Donna de Varona	4:49.1	Canada   Mary Stewart   Madelaine Sevigny   Sharon Pierce   Lynne Pomfret	4:52.5	Venezuela   Bettina Giller   Luisa Ruiz   Laura Varela   Anneliese Rockenback	5:11.8

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	16	9	2	27
2	Canada	0	6	9	15
3	Argentina	0	1	1	2
4	Brazil	0	0	3	3
5	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		16	16	16	48

References

1. USA Swimming Database
2. Results of the 1963 Pan at USA Swimming
3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
4. Resultados
5. Folha Online
6. All Pan medalists - Male
7. All Pan medalists - Female
8. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
9. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
10. Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. Editora Planeta. ISBN 8576652803.