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Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	March 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Jimmy McLane   United States   Oscar Kramer   Argentina   Gilberto Martínez   Colombia
«1951 1959»

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 20 March. The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

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Final

The final was held on March 20.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jimmy McLane	United States	20:04.0
	Oscar Kramer	Argentina	20:09.9
	Gilberto Martínez	Colombia	20:37.2
4	Jorge Vogt	Argentina	20:41.1
5	Sílvio Kelly dos Santos	Brazil	20:48.2
6	William Yorzyk	United States	20:50.2
7	-	-	-
8	Wayne Moore	United States	21:04.0

References

1. ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - March 21, 1955, Morning, Sports, page 2". O GLOBO. Retrieved 12 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". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
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

• Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games