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

The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September.O GLOBO News Archive The last Pan American Games champion was Mary Lou Elsenius of US.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MaleAll Pan medalists - FemalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on September 1.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Anne Warner 2:56.4 Q, GR - - Patty Kemper - Q - - Anne Brancroft - Q - - Mary Whitwill - Q - - Janice Shepp - Q - - Bonnie Benson - Q - - Glória Betella - Q - - Sônia Escher 3:14.1 Q

Final The final was held on September 1. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Anne Warner 2:56.8 Patty Kemper 3:00.1 Anne Brancroft 3:01.3 4 - - - 5 - - - 6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - -

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