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

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the II Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	March 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Wanda Werner   United States   Liliana Gonzalias   Argentina   Gilda Aranda   Mexico
«1951 1959»

The women's 200 metre freestyle 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 Ana María Schultz of Argentina.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.^[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
	Wanda Werner	United States	2:32.5
	Liliana Gonzalias	Argentina	2:32.9
	Gilda Aranda	Mexico	2:33.6
4	Susan Gray	United States	2:33.7
5	Beth Whittall	Canada	2:37.7
6	Gladys Priestley	Canada	2:37.8
7	-	-	-
8	-	-	-

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - March 21, 1955, Morning, Sports, page 2". O GLOBO. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
2. O GLOBO News Archive
3. Hickoksports
4. Resultados
5. All Pan medalists - Male
6. All Pan medalists - Female
7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
8. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.