Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
| Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the II Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | March 24 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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| «1951 | 1959» | |||||||||
The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Dorotea Turnbull of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7]
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.[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 |
Final
The final was held on March 24.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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 | Mary Lou Elsenius |  United States | 3:08.4 | |
 | Mary Jane Sears | United States | 3:09.0 | |
 | 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 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ↑ O GLOBO News Archive
- ↑ Hickoksports
- ↑ 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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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