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| 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.[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
[edit]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
[edit]The final was held on March 20.[1]
| 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
[edit]- ^ 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
