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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	March 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Mary Lou Elsenius    United States   Mary Jane Sears    United States   Beatriz Rohde    Argentina
«1951 1959»

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]}

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 24. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mary Lou Elsenius	United States	3:08.4
	Mary Jane Sears	United States	3:09.0
	Beatriz Rohde	Argentina	3:09.4
4	Mary Gillett	United States	3:19.9
5	Irma Schluter	Mexico	3:21.5
6	Wanda Castro	Brazil	3:21.6
7	Adriana Hernández	Mexico	3:23.0
8	Helen Stewart	Canada	3:24.8

References

1. "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.