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

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Jimmy McLane  United States
Silver medal Wayne Moore  United States
Bronze medal Oscar Kramer  Argentina
«1951
1959»

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[9]

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

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 23.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jimmy McLane  United States 4:51.3 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wayne Moore  United States 4:53.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Oscar Kramer  Argentina 4:56.1
4 William Yorzyk  United States 4:56.9
5 Heriberto González  Mexico 4:58.9
6 Sílvio Kelly dos Santos  Brazil 5:02.1
7 Federico Zwanck  Argentina 5:02.3
8 Carlos Orozco  Mexico 5:04.7

References

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. 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". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  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