Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 20 March.O GLOBO News Archive The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history

This race consisted of thirty lengths of the pool, all lengths being in freestyle.Swimming technical manual

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final The final was held on March 20. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jimmy McLane 20:04.0 Oscar Kramer 20:09.9 Gilberto Martínez 20:37.2 4 Jorge Vogt 20:41.1 5 Sílvio Kelly dos Santos 20:48.2 6 William Yorzyk 20:50.2 7 - - - 8 Wayne Moore 21:04.0

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