Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 19 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Peter Rocca of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Brazil
Bronze medal   Canada
«1979
1987»

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

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 19.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Rick Carey   United States 1:59.34 GR
  Ricardo Prado   Brazil 2:02.85 SA
  Mike West   Canada 2:03.11
4 Cameron Henning   Canada 2:03.33
5 Richey Hughey   United States 2:06.67
6 Giovanni Frigo   Venezuela 2:07.81 NR
7 Jorge Macario   Venezuela 2:15.60
8 Allan Marsh   Jamaica 2:16.56

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. ^ Hickosports Results
  4. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  5. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  6. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  7. ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.