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

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the III Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 31 (preliminaries), September 3 (finals)
Medalists
 Chris von Saltza  United States
 Shirley Stobs  United States
 Joan Spillane  United States
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The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaires)[1][2] and 3 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Wanda Werner of US.[4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 31.[1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Chris von Saltza United States2:20.3Q, GR
--Shirley Stobs United States-Q
--Joan Spillane United States-Q
--Margareth 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 Brazil2:38.4
11-Lilian Moreira Brazil2:39.4
13-Glória Funaro Brazil2:44.5

Final

The final was held on September 3.[3]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Chris von Saltza United States2:18.5GR
2nd, silver medalist(s)Shirley Stobs United States2:22.9
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Joan Spillane United States2:23.0
4Blanca Barrón Mexico2:29.4
5Margareth Iwasaki Canada2:29.4
6Maria Luísa Sousa Mexico2:33.2
7Susan Sangster Canada-
8Maria Teixeira Brazil2:38.5

References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  2. ↑ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. 1 2 "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.
  4. ↑ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.is
  5. ↑ Resultados
  6. ↑ All Pan medalists - Male
  7. ↑ All Pan medalists - Female
  8. ↑ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  9. ↑ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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