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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   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.[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: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 24.[1]

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

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