Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle
| Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | March 25 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Ana María Schultz of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7]
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[8]
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 |
Heats
Final
The final was held on March 25.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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5:32.4 | |
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Carolyn Green |  United States |
5:34.7 | |
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Carol Tait | United States |
5:34.9 | |
| 4 | Susan Gray | United States |
5:36.5 | |
| 5 | Gilda Aranda |  Mexico |
5:44.2 | |
| 6 | Blanca Barrón | Mexico |
5:47.8 | |
| 7 | - | - | - | |
| 8 | - | - | - |
References
- ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 26, 1955, Morning, General, page 2". 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 Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
