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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Argentina
«1951
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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: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 24.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Mary Lou Elsenius United States3:08.4
2nd, silver medalist(s)Mary Jane Sears United States3:09.0
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Beatriz Rohde Argentina3:09.4
4Mary Gillett United States3:19.9
5Irma Schluter Mexico3:21.5
6Wanda Castro Brazil3:21.6
7Adriana Hernández Mexico3:23.0
8Helen Stewart Canada3:24.8

References

  1. 1 2 "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.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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