| Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | March 20 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 20 March. The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.
This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.
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
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Final
The final was held on March 20.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| Jimmy McLane | United States | 20:04.0 | ||
| Oscar Kramer | Argentina | 20:09.9 | ||
| Gilberto Martínez | 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
- ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 21, 1955, Morning, Sports, page 2". O GLOBO. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ O GLOBO News Archive
- ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
- ^ Resultados
- ^ All Pan medalists - Male
- ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
