Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
   United States
   Argentina
   Colombia
«1951
1959»

The men's 1500 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 Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 20.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Jimmy McLane  United States 20:04.0
2nd, silver medalist(s) Oscar Kramer  Argentina 20:09.9
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Gilberto Arango  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

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