Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle

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Women's 400 metre freestyle at the III Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesSeptember 2 (preliminaries), September 6 (finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Chris von Saltza  US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Sylvia Ruuska  US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Donna Graham  US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
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The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 2 September (preliminaries) [1] [2] and 6 September (finals). [3] The last Pan American Games champion was Beth Whittall of Canada. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Contents

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke. [9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on September 2. [1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11 Chris von Saltza Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:58.1Q, GR
22 Sylvia Ruuska Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:00.1Q
31 Donna Graham Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:11.5Q
41 Maria Luísa Sousa Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 5:22.0Q
52 Blanca Barrón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 5:22.4Q
61 Katy Campbell Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 5:25.1Q
71 Susan Sangster Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 5:25.7Q
81 Maria Teixeira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 5:37.2Q
-2 Lilian Moreira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 5:40.1
-2 Glória Funaro Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 5:46.4

Final

The final was held on September 6. [3]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Chris von Saltza Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:55.9 GR
Silver medal icon.svg Sylvia Ruuska Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:03.4
Bronze medal icon.svg Donna Graham Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5:03.5
4 Katy Campbell Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 5:19.8
5 Blanca Barrón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 5:20.0
6 Maria Luísa Sousa Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 5:21.5
7---
8 Glória Funaro Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 5:44.0

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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 3, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. ↑ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. 1 2 "O GLOBO News archive - September 7, 1959, Morning, Sports, page 6". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  5. ↑ Resultados
  6. ↑ All Pan medalists - Male
  7. ↑ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  8. ↑ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  9. ↑ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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