The 2nd Pan American Games opened on 12 March in the University Stadium (now Olympic Stadium) before a capacity crowd of 100,000 spectators. The Pan American Games are a multi-sport event, held every four years between competitors from all nations of the Americas. ...

2583 athletes from 22 nations marched in review and formed ranks upon the infield. The nations paraded into the stadium in Spanish alphabetical order: Argentina, Dutch Antilles, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Mexico. The hot sun, combined with the high altitude, caused two members of the U.S. team to collapse. Both quickly recovered. The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen), previously known as the Netherlands West Indies, are part of the Lesser Antilles and consist of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea that form an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (none of the other Antilles use this term in... Trinidad (Spanish, Trinity) is the largest and most populous of the 23 islands which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago. ...

Medal Table

Host country in bold.

1955 Pan American Games Medal Count
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	81	58	38	177
2	Argentina	27	31	15	73
3	Mexico	17	11	30	58
4	Chile	4	7	13	24
5	Canada	4	4	3	11
6	Venezuela	2	5	11	18
7	Brazil	2	3	12	17
8	Colombia	2	3	1	6
9	Cuba	1	6	6	13
10	Panama	1	1	0	2
11	Guatemala	1	0	1	2
	Dominican Republic	1	0	1	2
13	Uruguay	0	6	3	9
14	Puerto Rico	0	2	2	4
15	Jamaica	0	2	1	3
16	Dutch Antilles	0	1	3	4
17	Trinidad & Tobago	0	1	1	2