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

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Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Argentina
Bronze medal   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

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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

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Final

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The final was held on March 20.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jimmy McLane  United States 20:04.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Oscar Kramer  Argentina 20:09.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gilberto Arango  Colombia 20:37.2
4 Jorge Vogt  Argentina 20:41.1
5 Sílvio Kelly dos Santos  Brazil 20:48.2
6 William Yorzyk  United States 20:50.2
7 - - -
8 Wayne Moore  United States 21:04.0

References

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  1. ^ a b "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.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