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

The women's 200 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 Ana María Schultz of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Argentina
Bronze medal   Mexico
«1951
1959»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[9]

Results edit

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 edit

Final edit

The final was held on March 20.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Wanda Werner   United States 2:32.5
  Liliana Gonzalias   Argentina 2:32.9
  Gilda Aranda   Mexico 2:33.6
4 Susan Gray   United States 2:33.7
5 Beth Whittall   Canada 2:37.7
6 Gladys Priestley   Canada 2:37.8
7 - - -
8 - - -

References edit

  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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.