Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games

The Swimming competition at the 2nd Pan American Games was held in Mexico City, Mexico during the Games' run in 1955. It consisted of 16 long course (50m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Swimming at the II Pan American Games
«1951 1959»

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 Freestyle	Clarke Scholes   USA	57.7	George Park   Canada	58.7	Carl Woolley   USA	59.3
400 Freestyle	Jimmy McLane   USA	4:51.3	Wayne Moore   USA	4:53.4	Oscar Kramer   Argentina	4:56.1
1500 Freestyle	Jimmy McLane   USA	20:04.0	Oscar Kramer   Argentina	20:09.9	Gilberto Arango   Colombia	20:37.2
100 Backstroke	Frank McKinney   USA	1:07.1	Pedro Galvao   Argentina	1:07.8	Leonide "Buddy" Baarcke   USA	1:07.9
200 Breaststroke	Héctor Domínguez   Argentina	2:46.9	Manuel Sanguily   Cuba	2:47.3	Walter Ocampo   Mexico	2:50.7
200 Butterfly	Eulalio Ríos   Mexico	2:39.8	Walter Ocampo   Mexico	2:40.3	William Yorzyk   USA	2:42.5
4×200  Free Relay	United States   Martin Smith   William Yorzyk   Wayne Moore   Jimmy McLane	9:00.0	Argentina   Pedro Galvão   Federico Zwanck   José Izaguirre   Jorge Vogt	9:09.0	Canada   George Park   Allen Gilchrist   Gerry McNamee   Ted Simpson	9:12.2
4×100  Medley Relay	United States   Frank McKinney   Fred Maguire   Leonide Baarcke   Clark Scholes	4:29.1	Argentina   Pedro Galvão   Héctor Domínguez   Orlando Cossani   Federico Zwanck	4:33.4	Mexico   Clemente Mejía   Walter Ocampo   Eulalio Ríos   Otilio Holguin	4:35.5

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 Freestyle	Helen Stewart   Canada	1:07.7	Wanda Werner   USA	1:07.7	Virginia Grant   Canada	1:08.3
200 Freestyle	Wanda Werner   USA	2:32.5	Liliana Gonzalias   Argentina	2:32.9	Gilda Aranda   Mexico	2:33.6
400 Freestyle	Beth Whittall   Canada	5:32.4	Carolyn Green   USA	5:34.7	Carol Tait   USA	5:34.9
100 Backstroke	Leonore Fisher   Canada	1:16.7	Coralie O'Connor   USA	1:17.8	Cynthia Gill   USA	1:17.9
200 Breaststroke	Mary Lou Elsenius   USA	3:08.4	Mary Jane Sears   USA	3:09.0	Beatriz Rohde   Argentina	3:09.4
100 Butterfly	Beth Whittall   Canada	1:16.2	Betty Brey   USA	1:16.5	Shelley Mann   USA	1:17.7
4×100  Free Relay	United States   Wanda Werner   Carolyn Green   Gretchen Kluter   Judith Roberts	4:31.8	Canada   Helen Stewart   Gladys Priestley   Virginia Grant   Beth Whittall	4:38.1	Argentina   Liliana Gonzalias   Ana María Schultz   Eileen Holt   Cristina Kujath	4:43.7
4×100  Medley Relay	United States   Coralie O'Connor   Mary Jane Sears   Betty Brey   Wanda Werner	5:11.6	Canada   Helen Stewart   Lenora Fisher   Virginia Grant   Beth Whittall	5:12.2	Argentina   Liliana Gonzalias   Vanna Rocco   Eileen Holt   Beatríz Rohde	5:30.5

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	10	6	6	22
2	Canada	4	3	2	9
3	Argentina	1	5	4	10
4	Mexico	1	1	3	5
5	Cuba	0	1	0	1
6	Colombia	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		16	16	16	48

References

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