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

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
   Canada
   United States
   United States
«1951
1959»

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Ana María Schultz of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[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)Beth Whittall Canada5:32.4
2nd, silver medalist(s)Carolyn Green United States5:34.7
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Carol Tait United States5:34.9
4Susan Gray United States5:36.5
5Gilda Aranda Mexico5:44.2
6Blanca Barrón Mexico5:47.8
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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 Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine.
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