Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

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Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesMarch 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
«1951
1959»

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]

Contents

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-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 20. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Jimmy McLane Flag of the United States.svg  United States 20:04.0
Silver medal icon.svg Oscar Kramer Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 20:09.9
Bronze medal icon.svg Gilberto Arango Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 20:37.2
4 Jorge Vogt Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 20:41.1
5 Sílvio Kelly dos Santos Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 20:48.2
6 William Yorzyk Flag of the United States.svg  United States 20:50.2
7---
8 Wayne Moore Flag of the United States.svg  United States 21:04.0

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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