Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre butterfly

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Men's 200 metre butterfly at the II Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesMarch 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg  Mexico
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg  Mexico
Bronze medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
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The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March. [1] [2] It was the first appearance of this event in the Pan American Games. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Contents

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke. [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 25. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Eulalio Ríos Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:39.8
Silver medal icon.svg Walter Ocampo Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:40.3
Bronze medal icon.svg William Yorzyk Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:42.5
4 Jack Nelson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:43.6
5 Orlando Cossani Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:46.5
6 F.Gutierrez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:48.4
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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 26, 1955, Morning, General, page 2". 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". 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