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

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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»

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]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all 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) Wanda Werner  United States 2:32.5
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Liliana Gonzalias  Argentina 2:32.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

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