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

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.O GLOBO News Archive The last Pan American Games champion was Tetsuo Okamoto of Brazil.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.Swimming technical manual

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final The final was held on March 23. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jimmy McLane 4:51.3 GR Wayne Moore 4:53.4 Oscar Kramer 4:56.1 4 William Yorzyk 4:56.9 5 Heriberto González 4:58.9 6 Sílvio Kelly dos Santos 5:02.1 7 Federico Zwanck 5:02.3 8 Carlos Orozco 5:04.7

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