| Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the III Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | September 1 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September. [1] [2] The last Pan American Games champion was Mary Lou Elsenius of US. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke. There are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps, jewelry and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. Although it is possible for competitive swimmers to incur several injuries from the sport, such as tendinitis in the shoulders or knees, there are also multiple health benefits associated with the sport.
The third Pan American Games were held in Chicago, Illinois, United States between August 28 and September 7, 1959.
The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March. The last Pan American Games champion was Dorotea Turnbull of Argentina.
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This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke. [8]
Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be swum comfortably at slow speeds. In most swimming classes, beginners learn either the breaststroke or the freestyle first. However, at the competitive level, swimming breaststroke at speed requires comparable endurance and strength to other strokes. Some people refer to breaststroke as the "frog" stroke, as the arms and legs move somewhat like a frog swimming in the water. The stroke itself is the slowest of any competitive strokes and is thought to be the oldest of all swimming strokes.
