Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

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Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesMarch 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina
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The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March. [1] [2] The last Pan American Games champion was Dorotea Turnbull of Argentina. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Contents

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke. [8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 24. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Mary Lou Elsenius Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:08.4
Silver medal icon.svg Mary Jane Sears Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:09.0
Bronze medal icon.svg Beatriz Rohde Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 3:09.4
4 Mary Gillett Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:19.9
5 Irma Schluter Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 3:21.5
6 Wanda Castro Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:21.6
7 Adriana Hernández Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 3:23.0
8 Helen Stewart Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:24.8

References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. 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
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.