Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Argentina
Bronze medal   Colombia
«1951
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 20 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 20.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Jimmy McLane United States20:04.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Oscar Kramer Argentina20:09.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Gilberto Arango Colombia20:37.2
4Jorge Vogt Argentina20:41.1
5Sílvio Kelly dos Santos Brazil20:48.2
6William Yorzyk United States20:50.2
7---
8Wayne Moore United States21:04.0

References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 21, 1955, Morning, Sports, page 2". O GLOBO. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. Resultados
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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