Athletics at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metres

Athletics at the 1955 Pan American Games
Track events
60 m		women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1955 Pan American Games was held at the Estadio Universitario in Mexico City on 17 and 18 March.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lou Jones  United States	Jim Lea  United States	Jesse Mashburn  United States

Results[]

Heats[]

Held on 17 March

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Lou Jones	United States	47.66	Q, GR
2	1	Mel Spence	Jamaica	47.86	Q
3	1		Venezuela	47.94	Q
4	1	Jorge Terán	Mexico	48.78
5	1	Ovidio de Jesús	Puerto Rico	49.97
1	2	Guillermo Gutiérrez	Venezuela	48.31	Q
2	2	Argemiro Roque	Brazil	48.62	Q
3	2		Jamaica	48.83	Q
4	2		Mexico	49.57
5	2		Bahamas	51.62
	2	Angel García	Cuba	DNF
1	3	Jim Lea	United States	48.93	Q
2	3	Frank Rivera	Puerto Rico	48.94	Q
3	3	Dick Harding	Canada	49.27	Q
4	3	Evelio Planas	Cuba	49.47
1	4	Jesse Mashburn	United States	50.59	Q
2	4		Brazil	53.90	Q

Semifinals[]

Held on 17 March

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Lou Jones	United States	47.10	Q, GR
2	1	Jim Lea	United States	47.69	Q
3	1		Venezuela	47.91	Q
4	1		Jamaica	48.34
5	1	Argemiro Roque	Brazil	48.55
1	2	Jesse Mashburn	United States	47.51	Q
2	2	Frank Rivera	Puerto Rico	48.01	Q
3	2	Mel Spence	Jamaica	48.09	Q
4	2	Dick Harding	Canada	48.28
5	2	Guillermo Gutiérrez	Venezuela	48.61
6	2		Brazil	49.66

Final[]

Held on 18 March

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lou Jones	United States	45.68	WR
	Jim Lea	United States	45.78
	Jesse Mashburn	United States	46.44
4	Frank Rivera	Puerto Rico	48.37
5	Mel Spence	Jamaica	48.84
		Venezuela	DNF

References[]