Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle

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Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   Canada
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   United States
«1951
1959»

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Ana María Schultz of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[8]

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[edit]

Final[edit]

The final was held on March 25.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Beth Whittall  Canada 5:32.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carolyn Green  United States 5:34.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carol Tait  United States 5:34.9
4 Susan Gray  United States 5:36.5
5 Gilda Aranda  Mexico 5:44.2
6 Blanca Barrón  Mexico 5:47.8
7 - - -
8 - - -

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 26, 1955, Morning, General, page 2". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 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
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine