Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre individual medley
Games:	1979
Venue:	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates:	July 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Jesse Vassallo
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Graham Smith
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Scott Spann
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 6 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Steve Furniss of US.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.^[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 6.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			2:07.90	Q
2			2:08.99	Q
3			2:09.67	Q
4			2:10.16	Q
5			2:10.39	Q
6			2:10.60	Q
7			2:10.78	Q, NR
8			2:13.93	Q
9			2:14.15
10			2:14.47
11			2:14.73	NR
12			2:15.16	NR
13			2:16.02	NR
14			2:16.51
15			2:16.68
16			2:21.50
17			2:21.67
18			2:34.30

Final

The final was held on July 6.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:03.29	WR
			2:05.86
			2:06.29
4			2:07.51
5			2:08.76	NR
6			2:09.63	NR
7			2:11.51	NR
8			2:14.89

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results. USA SWIMMING. 30 September 2013.
2. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
3. http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Hickosports Results
4. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
5. Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-10-02 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
6. http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
7. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
8. Web site: Swimming Technical Manual. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf. 28 July 2011.