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Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

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International sporting event
Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Mary Lou Elsenius  United States
Silver medal Mary Jane Sears  United States
Bronze medal Beatriz Rohde  Argentina
«1951 1959»

The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March. The last Pan American Games champion was Dorotea Turnbull of Argentina.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.

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

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Final

The final was held on March 24.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mary Lou Elsenius  United States 3:08.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mary Jane Sears  United States 3:09.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

  1. ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 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
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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