The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 2 September (preliminaries) O GLOBO News Archive and 6 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Beth Whittall of Canada.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.Swimming technical manual
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on September 2.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Chris von Saltza 4:58.1 Q, GR 2 2 Sylvia Ruuska 5:00.1 Q 3 1 Donna Graham 5:11.5 Q 4 1 Maria Luísa Sousa 5:22.0 Q 5 2 Blanca Barrón 5:22.4 Q 6 1 Katy Campbell 5:25.1 Q 7 1 Susan Sangster 5:25.7 Q 8 1 Maria Teixeira 5:37.2 Q - 2 Lilian Moreira 5:40.1 - 2 Glória Funaro 5:46.4
Final The final was held on September 6. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Chris von Saltza 4:55.9 GR Sylvia Ruuska 5:03.4 Donna Graham 5:03.5 4 Katy Campbell 5:19.8 5 Blanca Barrón 5:20.0 6 Maria Luísa Sousa 5:21.5 7 - - - 8 Glória Funaro 5:44.0
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