Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games

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Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games

Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m		women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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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]

Results

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

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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	10	6	6	22
2	Canada	4	3	2	9
3	Argentina	1	5	4	10
4	Mexico	1	1	3	5
5	Cuba	0	1	0	1
6	Colombia	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		16	16	16	48

References

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