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

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March.[1][2] It was the first appearance of this event in the Pan American Games.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the II Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
 Eulalio Ríos  Mexico
 Walter Ocampo  Mexico
 William Yorzyk  United States
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This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.[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 25.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Eulalio Ríos Mexico2:39.8
Walter Ocampo Mexico2:40.3
William Yorzyk United States2:42.5
4Jack Nelson United States2:43.6
5Orlando Cossani Argentina2:46.5
6F.Gutierrez Mexico2:48.4
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References
  1. "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. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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