Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Games:	1979
Venue:	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates:	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Anne Gagnon
Goldnoc:	CAN
Silver:	Joanne Bédard
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Patty Spees
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The women's 200 metre breaststroke 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 Lauri Siering of US.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 5.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			2:40.82	Q
2			2:42.00	Q
3			2:43.57	Q
4			2:43.91	Q
5			2:44.01	Q, NR
6			2:44.12	Q
7			2:45.67	Q
8			2:46.83	Q
9			2:49.04
10			2:50.66

Final

The final was held on July 5.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:35.75	NR, GR
			2:40.22
			2:40.79
4			2:41.84
5			2:42.32	NR
6			2:44.50
7			2:45.88
8			2:46.94

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results. USA SWIMMING. 10 October 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 . 2013-10-10 . 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.