Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 8 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Mark Spitz of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8][excessive citations]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   Ecuador
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Peru
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This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.[9]

At this race, two swimmers won the first medals of their countries in swimming at Pan American Games at all times: Jorge Delgado got the gold for Ecuador, and Augusto González, the bronze for Peru.

Results edit

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats edit

Final edit

The final was held on August 8.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Jorge Delgado   Ecuador 2:06.4 = GR, SA
  Robb Orr   United States 2:08.4
  Augusto González   Peru 2:09.9
4 Robert Clarke   United States 2:10.1
5 Tomás Becerra   Colombia 2:11.2
6 Ricardo Marmolejo   Mexico 2:12.0
7 Ron Jacks   Canada 2:13.0
8 Francisco Ramos   Brazil 2:14.2

References edit

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - August 9, 1971, Evening, General, page 42". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. ^ Resultados
  5. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  6. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine