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

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Games:	1959
Venue:	-
Dates:	September 1 (preliminaries and finals)
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Anne Warner
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Patty Kemper
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Anne Brancroft
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1955
Next:	1963

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]}

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on September 1.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2			2:56.4	Q, GR
-	-			-	Q
-	-			-	Q
-	-			-	Q
-	-			-	Q
-	-			-	Q
-	-			-	Q
-	-			3:14.1	Q

Final

The final was held on September 1.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:56.8
			3:00.1
			3:01.3
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6	-	-	-
7	-	-	-
8	-	-	-

Notes and References

1. Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 2, 1959, Morning, General, page 16. O GLOBO. 7 September 2013.
2. http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
3. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
4. http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Resultados
5. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
6. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 All Pan medalists - Female
7. http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
8. Web site: Swimming Technical Manual. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf. 28 July 2011.