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

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
 Jimmy McLane  United States
 Oscar Kramer  Argentina
 Gilberto Arango  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]

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-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 20.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Jimmy McLane United States20:04.0
2nd, silver medalist(s)Oscar Kramer Argentina20:09.9
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Gilberto Arango Colombia20:37.2
4Jorge Vogt Argentina20:41.1
5Sílvio Kelly dos Santos Brazil20:48.2
6William Yorzyk United States20:50.2
7---
8Wayne Moore United States21:04.0

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.is
  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. ↑ 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.
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