Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

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Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Canada
Bronze medal   Argentina
«1951
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The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March.[1][2] The defending Pan American Games champion is the United States.[3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. Each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool. The first swimmer had to touch the wall before the second could leave the starting block.[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 24.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wanda Werner
Carolyn Green
Gretchen Kluter
Judith Roberts
 United States 4:31.8 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) -
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 Canada 4:38.1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) -
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 Argentina 4:43.7
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 Mexico 4:48.8
5 -
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6 -
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7 -
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8 -
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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". 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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.