Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
 Martin Smith, William Yorzyk, Wayne Moore and Jimmy McLane  United States
 -  Argentina
 -  Canada
«1951
1959»

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March.[1][2] The defending Pan American Games champion is the United States.[3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool. Each of the four swimmers completed four lengths of the pool. The first swimmer had to touch the wall before the second could leave the starting block.[8]

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 25.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Martin Smith
William Yorzyk
Wayne Moore
Jimmy McLane		 United States9:00.0
2nd, silver medalist(s)-
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-		 Argentina9:09.0
3rd, bronze medalist(s)-
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-		 Canada9:12.2
4-
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-		 Mexico9:12.7
5-
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-		 Brazil9:19.4
6-
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-		 El Salvador9:49.0
7-
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-		 Cuba10:08.9
8-
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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.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. ↑ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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