Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Argentina
«1951
1959»

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[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 23.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Jimmy McLane United States4:51.3GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Wayne Moore United States4:53.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Oscar Kramer Argentina4:56.1
4William Yorzyk United States4:56.9
5Heriberto González Mexico4:58.9
6Sílvio Kelly dos Santos Brazil5:02.1
7Federico Zwanck Argentina5:02.3
8Carlos Orozco Mexico5:04.7

References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 9 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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