Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
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]
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| Dates | March 20 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.[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 |
Final
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 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
- "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
- 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
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