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

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]

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the II Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
   Argentina
   Cuba
   Mexico
«1951
1959»

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 20.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Héctor Domínguez Argentina2:46.9
Manuel Sanguily Cuba2:47.3
Walter Ocampo Mexico2:50.7
4Nélson Ferreira Brazil2:55.3
5José Hernández Mexico2:55.6
6Ronald Johnson United States3:00.8
7Carlos Bacellar Brazil3:03.6
8Richard Fadgen United States3:13.5

References

  1. "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
  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.
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