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

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International sporting event
Women's 400 metre freestyle at the I959 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesSeptember 2 (preliminaries), September 6 (finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Chris von Saltza  United States
Silver medal Sylvia Ruuska  United States
Bronze medal Donna Graham  United States
«1955 1963»

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 2 September (preliminaries) and 6 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Beth Whittall of Canada.

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

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 September 2.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Chris von Saltza  United States 4:58.1 Q, GR
2 2 Sylvia Ruuska  United States 5:00.1 Q
3 1 Donna Graham  United States 5:11.5 Q
4 1 Maria Luísa Sousa  Mexico 5:22.0 Q
5 2 Blanca Barrón  Mexico 5:22.4 Q
6 1 Katy Campbell  Canada 5:25.1 Q
7 1 Susan Sangster  Canada 5:25.7 Q
8 1 Maria Teixeira  Brazil 5:37.2 Q
- 2 Lilian Moreira  Brazil 5:40.1
- 2 Glória Funaro  Brazil 5:46.4

Final

The final was held on September 6.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Chris von Saltza  United States 4:55.9 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sylvia Ruuska  United States 5:03.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Donna Graham  United States 5:03.5
4 Katy Campbell  Canada 5:19.8
5 Blanca Barrón  Mexico 5:20.0
6 Maria Luísa Sousa  Mexico 5:21.5
7 - - -
8 Glória Funaro  Brazil 5:44.0

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". 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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