Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
| Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the II Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | March 20 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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| «1951 | 1959» | |||||||||
The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 20 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Héctor Domínguez of Argentina.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.[9]
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 20.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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 | Héctor Domínguez |  Argentina | 2:46.9 | |
 | Manuel Sanguily |  Cuba | 2:47.3 | |
 | Walter Ocampo |  Mexico | 2:50.7 | |
| 4 | Nélson Ferreira |  Brazil | 2:55.3 | |
| 5 | José Hernández | Mexico | 2:55.6 | |
| 6 | Ronald Johnson |  United States | 3:00.8 | |
| 7 | Carlos Bacellar | Brazil | 3:03.6 | |
| 8 | Richard Fadgen | United States | 3:13.5 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 21, 1955, Morning, Sports, page 2". O GLOBO. Retrieved 12 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.
- ↑ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
- ↑ "Swimming Technical Manual". Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
