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

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Games:	1979
Venue:	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates:	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Peter Rocca
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Jesse Vassallo
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Djan Madruga
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

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

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.^[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 5.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			2:05.93	Q
2			2:06.52	Q
3			2:06.85	Q
4			2:08.39	Q
5			2:08.97	Q
6			2:09.48	Q
7			2:10.15	Q
8	José Urueta		2:10.83	Q
9			2:10.84
10			2:11.98
11			2:13.19
12			2:13.25	NR
13			2:13.50
14			2:21.69
15			2:24.56	NR

Final

The final was held on July 5.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:00.98	NR, GR
			2:02.07
			2:04.74	NR
4			2:04.99
5			2:05.33
6			2:07.90
7			2:08.40
8	José Urueta		2:10.25

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 . 2013-09-30 . 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.