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

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Games:	1979
Venue:	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates:	July 2 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Tracy Caulkins
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Nancy Garapick
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Anne Tweedy
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 2 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Kathy Heddy of the United States.^{[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 shown in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 2.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			2:21.29	Q
2			2:21.89	Q
3			2:22.43	Q
4			2:23.73	Q
5			2:25.74	Q, NR
6			2:28.01	Q
7			2:28.48	Q
8			2:29.97	Q
9			2:30.33	NR
10			2:32.11
11			2:32.96	NR
12			2:34.10
13			2:35.50	NR
14			2:37.63
15			2:42.99	NR

Final

The final was held on July 2.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:16.11	NR, GR
			2:19.36
			2:20.33
4			2:20.83
5			2:26.13
6			2:26.54	NR
7			2:27.71	NR
8			2:30.80

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results. USA SWIMMING. 11 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 . 2013-10-12 . 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.