The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 3 September (preliminaries)O GLOBO News Archive and 4 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Eulalio Ríos of Mexico.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly 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 3.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Dave Gillanders 2:20.2 Q, GR 2 1 Michael Troy 2:20.5 Q 3 3 Tony Tashnick 2:22.0 Q 4 1 Eulalio Ríos 2:22.5 Q 5 2 Fernando Fanjul 2:26.4 Q 6 1 Peter Fowler 2:38.8 Q 7 2 Heriberto Alvarado 2:41.3 Q 8 2 Ernesto Muñoz 2:41.6 Q - 3 Moacir dos Santos 2:49.8
Final The final was held on September 4. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Dave Gillanders 2:18.0 GR Michael Troy 2:18.3 Eulalio Ríos 2:22.5 4 Tony Tashnick 2:22.8 5 Fernando Fanjul 2:29.3 6 Ernesto Muñoz 2:39.5 7 - - - 8 - - -
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