Date 17 August 2003 | ||
The Men's 1500m Freestyle event at the 2003 Pan American Games took place on August 17, 2003 (Day 16 of the Games).
Ricardo Monasterio won the gold medal, breaking a string of 12 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only other non-American had won the race, the Brazilian Tetsuo Okamoto, in the first edition of the Games in 1951.
References
Swimming at the 2003 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA