Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (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.svg  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]

Contents

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-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 23. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Jimmy McLane Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:51.3 GR
Silver medal icon.svg Wayne Moore Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:53.4
Bronze medal icon.svg Oscar Kramer Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 4:56.1
4 William Yorzyk Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:56.9
5 Heriberto González Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 4:58.9
6 Sílvio Kelly dos Santos Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 5:02.1
7 Federico Zwanck Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 5:02.3
8 Carlos Orozco Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 5:04.7

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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