Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games

The Swimming competition at the 2nd Pan American Games was held in Mexico City, Mexico during the Games' run in 1955. It consisted of 16 long course (50m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games
«1951
1959»

Results edit

Men edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 Freestyle
  details
Clarke Scholes
    USA
57.7 George Park
    Canada
58.7 Carl Woolley
    USA
59.3
400 Freestyle
  details
Jimmy McLane
    USA
4:51.3 Wayne Moore
    USA
4:53.4 Oscar Kramer
    Argentina
4:56.1
1500 Freestyle
  details
Jimmy McLane
    USA
20:04.0 Oscar Kramer
    Argentina
20:09.9 Gilberto Arango
    Colombia
20:37.2
100 Backstroke
  details
Frank McKinney
    USA
1:07.1 Pedro Galvao
    Argentina
1:07.8 Leonide "Buddy" Baarcke
    USA
1:07.9
200 Breaststroke
  details
Héctor Domínguez
    Argentina
2:46.9 Manuel Sanguily
    Cuba
2:47.3 Walter Ocampo
    Mexico
2:50.7
200 Butterfly
  details
Eulalio Ríos
    Mexico
2:39.8 Walter Ocampo
    Mexico
2:40.3 William Yorzyk
    USA
2:42.5
4×200
 Free Relay
  details
  United States
  Martin Smith
  William Yorzyk
  Wayne Moore
  Jimmy McLane
9:00.0   Argentina
  Pedro Galvão
  Federico Zwanck
  José Izaguirre
  Jorge Vogt
9:09.0   Canada
  George Park
  Allen Gilchrist
  Gerry McNamee
  Ted Simpson
9:12.2
4×100
 Medley Relay
  details
  United States
  Frank McKinney
  Fred Maguire
  Leonide Baarcke
  Clark Scholes
4:29.1   Argentina
  Pedro Galvão
  Héctor Domínguez
  Orlando Cossani
  Federico Zwanck
4:33.4   Mexico
  Clemente Mejía
  Walter Ocampo
  Eulalio Ríos
  Otilio Holguin
4:35.5

Women edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 Freestyle
  details
Helen Stewart
    Canada
1:07.7 Wanda Werner
    USA
1:07.7 Virginia Grant
    Canada
1:08.3
200 Freestyle
  details
Wanda Werner
    USA
2:32.5 Liliana Gonzalias
    Argentina
2:32.9 Gilda Aranda
    Mexico
2:33.6
400 Freestyle
  details
Beth Whittall
    Canada
5:32.4 Carolyn Green
    USA
5:34.7 Carol Tait
    USA
5:34.9
100 Backstroke
  details
Leonore Fisher
    Canada
1:16.7 Coralie O'Connor
    USA
1:17.8 Cynthia Gill
    USA
1:17.9
200 Breaststroke
  details
Mary Lou Elsenius
    USA
3:08.4 Mary Jane Sears
    USA
3:09.0 Beatriz Rohde
    Argentina
3:09.4
100 Butterfly
  details
Beth Whittall
    Canada
1:16.2 Betty Brey
    USA
1:16.5 Shelley Mann
    USA
1:17.7
4×100
 Free Relay
  details
  United States
  Wanda Werner
  Carolyn Green
  Gretchen Kluter
  Judith Roberts
4:31.8   Canada
  Helen Stewart
  Gladys Priestley
  Virginia Grant
  Beth Whittall
4:38.1   Argentina
  Liliana Gonzalias
  Ana María Schultz
  Eileen Holt
  Cristina Kujath
4:43.7
4×100
 Medley Relay
  details
  United States
  Coralie O'Connor
  Mary Jane Sears
  Betty Brey
  Wanda Werner
5:11.6   Canada
  Helen Stewart
  Lenora Fisher
  Virginia Grant
  Beth Whittall
5:12.2   Argentina
  Liliana Gonzalias
  Vanna Rocco
  Eileen Holt
  Beatríz Rohde
5:30.5

Medal table edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States106622
2  Canada4329
3  Argentina15410
4  Mexico1135
5  Cuba0101
6  Colombia0011
Totals (6 entries)16161648

References edit

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  4. ^ "Pan American Games swimming medalists - Female". BestSwimming.com.br (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
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