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

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]

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the III Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesSeptember 2 (preliminaries), September 6 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«1955
1963»

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-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

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

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Chris von Saltza United States4:58.1Q, GR
22Sylvia Ruuska United States5:00.1Q
31Donna Graham United States5:11.5Q
41Maria Luísa Sousa Mexico5:22.0Q
52Blanca Barrón Mexico5:22.4Q
61Katy Campbell Canada5:25.1Q
71Susan Sangster Canada5:25.7Q
81Maria Teixeira Brazil5:37.2Q
-2Lilian Moreira Brazil5:40.1
-2Glória Funaro Brazil5:46.4

Final

The final was held on September 6.[3]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Chris von Saltza United States4:55.9GR
Sylvia Ruuska United States5:03.4
Donna Graham United States5:03.5
4Katy Campbell Canada5:19.8
5Blanca Barrón Mexico5:20.0
6Maria Luísa Sousa Mexico5:21.5
7---
8Glória Funaro Brazil5:44.0

References

  1. "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. "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
  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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