The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaries)O GLOBO News Archive and 6 September (finals). The defending Pan American Games champion is the United States.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 sixteen lengths of the pool. Each of the four swimmers completed four lengths of the pool. The first swimmer had to touch the wall before the second could leave the starting block.
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 - - - - 8:33.4 Q, GR 2 1 - - - - 8:53.7 Q 3 1 - - - - 9:02.1 Q 4 2 - - - - 9:12.2 Q 5 1 - - - - 9:15.3 Q 6 2 - - - - 9:27.4 Q 7 2 - - - - 9:32.8 Q 8 1 - - - - 9:44.3 Q
Final The final was held on September 6.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Dick Blick Peter Sintz John Rounsavelle Frank Winters 8:22.7 GR - - - - 8:56.4 - - - - 9:00.4 4 Moacir dos Santos Francisco Carioba Aldo Perseke Sídnei Gavioli 9:01.9 5 - - - - 9:11.3 6 - - - - 9:12.6 7 - - - - - - 8 - - - - - -
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