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

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the III Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 31 (preliminaries), September 2 (finals)
Medalists
Bill Mulliken   United States   Kenneth Nakasone   United States   Manuel Sanguily   Cuba
«1955 1963»

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaires)^[1][2] and 2 September (finals).^[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Héctor Domínguez of Argentina.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.^[10]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 31.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Manuel Sanguily	Cuba	2:44.9	Q, GR
2	2	Kenneth Nakasone	United States	2:45.3	Q
3	1	Bill Mulliken	United States	2:46.5	Q
4	1	Fred Munsch	United States	2:48.5	Q
5	2	Roberto Marmolejo	Mexico	2:51.6	Q
6	2	Ruben Vergos	Mexico	2:52.2	Q
7	2	Farid Zablith Filho	Brazil	2:52.2	Q
8	2	Stephen Rabinovitch	Canada	2:52.5	Q
-	2	Newton de Thuin	Brazil	2:58.5

Final

The final was held on September 2.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Bill Mulliken	United States	2:43.1	GR
02 !	Kenneth Nakasone	United States	2:43.2
03 !	Manuel Sanguily	Cuba	2:44.3
4	Fred Munsch	United States	2:47.7
5	Stephen Rabinovicth	Canada	-
6	Roberto Marmolejo	Mexico	-
7	Farid Zablith Filho	Brazil	2:52.6
8	Ruben Vergos	Mexico	-

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