Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Héctor Domínguez  Argentina
Silver medal Manuel Sanguily  Cuba
Bronze medal Walter Ocampo  Mexico
«1951
1959»

The men's 200 metre breaststroke 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 Héctor Domínguez of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.[9]

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

Final

The final was held on March 20.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Héctor Domínguez  Argentina 2:46.9
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Manuel Sanguily  Cuba 2:47.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Walter Ocampo  Mexico 2:50.7
4 Nélson Ferreira  Brazil 2:55.3
5 José Hernández  Mexico 2:55.6
6 Ronald Johnson  United States 3:00.8
7 Carlos Bacellar  Brazil 3:03.6
8 Richard Fadgen  United States 3:13.5

References

  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.