Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 400 metre freestyle
Games:	1955
Venue:	-
Dates:	March 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Jimmy McLane
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Wayne Moore
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Oscar Kramer
Bronzenoc:	ARG
Prev:	1951
Next:	1959

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.^{[1] [2]} The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.^[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Final

The final was held on March 23.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			4:51.3	GR
			4:53.4
			4:56.1
4			4:56.9
5			4:58.9
6			5:02.1
7			5:02.3
8			5:04.7

Notes and References

1. Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12. https://archive.today/20130909201129/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1955/03/24/01-primeira_secao/ge240355012PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 9 September 2013. O GLOBO. 9 September 2013.
2. http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
3. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
4. http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Resultados
5. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
6. Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-09-15 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
7. http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
8. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
9. http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual