The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaires)O GLOBO News Archive and 2 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Héctor Domínguez of Argentina.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
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 August 31.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Manuel Sanguily 2:44.9 Q, GR 2 2 Kenneth Nakasone 2:45.3 Q 3 1 Bill Mulliken 2:46.5 Q 4 1 Fred Munsch 2:48.5 Q 5 2 Roberto Marmolejo 2:51.6 Q 6 2 Ruben Vergos 2:52.2 Q 7 2 Farid Zablith Filho 2:52.2 Q 8 2 Stephen Rabinovitch 2:52.5 Q - 2 Newton de Thuin 2:58.5
Final The final was held on September 2. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Bill Mulliken 2:43.1 GR Kenneth Nakasone 2:43.2 Manuel Sanguily 2:44.3 4 Fred Munsch 2:47.7 5 Steve Rabinovitch - 6 Roberto Marmolejo - 7 Farid Zablith Filho 2:52.6 8 Ruben Vergos -
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