Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
| Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1955 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | March 24 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Dorotea Turnbull of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7]
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.[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
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Final
[edit]The final was held on March 24.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Mary Lou Elsenius |  United States |
3:08.4 | |
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Mary Jane Sears | United States |
3:09.0 | |
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Beatriz Rohde |  Argentina |
3:09.4 | |
| 4 | Mary Gillett | United States |
3:19.9 | |
| 5 | Irma Schluter |  Mexico |
3:21.5 | |
| 6 | Wanda Castro |  Brazil |
3:21.6 | |
| 7 | Adriana Hernández | Mexico |
3:23.0 | |
| 8 | Helen Stewart |  Canada |
3:24.8 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 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.
- ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
