Swimming at the 1991 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained
| Event: | Men's 200 metre backstroke |
| Games: | 1991 |
| Venue: | - |
| Dates: | August 14 (preliminaries and finals) |
| Competitors: | - |
| Nations: | - |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Gold: | Rogério Romero |
| Goldnoc: | BRA |
| Silver: | Dan Veatch |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Manuel Guzmán |
| Bronzenoc: | PUR |
| Prev: | 1987 |
| Next: | 1995 |
The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1991 Pan American Games took place on 14 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Mike O'Brien of US.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]
Rogério Romero won the gold medal, breaking a string of 5 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only one other non-American had won the race; the Canadian Ralph Hutton won in 1967 in the first edition of the Games in which this race was held.
Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.
Final
The final was held on August 14.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|
| | | 2:01.07 | |
| | | 2:01.14 | |
| | | 2:01.68 | |
| 4 | | | 2:01.70 | |
| 5 | | | 2:02.87 | |
| 6 | Paul Szekula | | 2:04.83 | |
| 7 | Stephen Hulford | | 2:05.60 | |
| 8 | Tomas Bisono | | 2:07.44 | | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Results. USA SWIMMING. 25 October 2013. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102302/http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/97d438f7-816e-454f-ac9a-ce177a1d3bd6/91_panam[1].pdf. dead.
- http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
- http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Hickosports Results
- Web site: All Pan medalists - Male . 2013-10-26 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142031/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 . dead .
- Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-10-26 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
- http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
- http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
- 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.
