Women's 200 metre freestyle at the I959 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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Dates | August 31 (preliminaries), September 3 (finals) | |||||||||
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«1955 1963» |
The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaires) and 3 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Wanda Werner of US.
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.
Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | GR | Games record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
Heats
The first round was held on August 31.
Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Chris von Saltza | United States | 2:20.3 | Q, GR |
- | - | Shirley Stobs | United States | - | Q |
- | - | Joan Spillane | United States | - | Q |
- | - | Margaret Iwasaki | Canada | - | Q |
- | - | Sara Barber | Canada | - | Q |
- | - | Maria Luísa Sousa | Mexico | - | Q |
7 | - | Blanca Barrón | Mexico | - | Q |
8 | - | Susan Sangster | Canada | - | Q |
9 | - | Maria Teixeira | Brazil | 2:38.4 | |
11 | - | Lilian Moreira | Brazil | 2:39.4 | |
13 | - | Glória Funaro | Brazil | 2:44.5 |
Final
The final was held on September 3.
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Chris von Saltza | United States | 2:18.5 | GR | |
Shirley Stobs | United States | 2:22.9 | ||
Joan Spillane | United States | 2:23.0 | ||
4 | Blanca Barrón | Mexico | 2:29.4 | |
5 | Margaret Iwasaki | Canada | 2:29.4 | |
6 | Maria Luísa Sousa | Mexico | 2:33.2 | |
7 | Susan Sangster | Canada | - | |
8 | Maria Teixeira | Brazil | 2:38.5 |
References
- ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - September 1, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- O GLOBO News Archive
- ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - September 4, 1959, Morning, General, page 14". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
- Resultados
- All Pan medalists - Male
- "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.