Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

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Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the I959 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesSeptember 1 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   US flag 49 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   US flag 49 stars.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   US flag 49 stars.svg  United States
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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]

Contents

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke. [8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on September 1. [1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
12 Anne Warner Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:56.4Q, GR
-- Patty Kemper Flag of the United States.svg  United States -Q
-- Anne Brancroft Flag of the United States.svg  United States -Q
-- Mary Whitwill Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada -Q
-- Janice Shepp Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada -Q
-- Bonnie Benson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada -Q
-- Glória Betella Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico -Q
-- Sônia Escher Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:14.1Q

Final

The final was held on September 1. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Anne Warner Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:56.8
Silver medal icon.svg Patty Kemper Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:00.1
Bronze medal icon.svg Anne Brancroft Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:01.3
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References

  1. 1 2 3 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 2, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  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. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.