Swimming at the 1991 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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]

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1991 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   Brazil
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Puerto Rico
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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 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 14.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Rogério Romero   Brazil 2:01.07
  Dan Veatch   United States 2:01.14
  Manuel Guzmán   Puerto Rico 2:01.68
4 Brad Bridgewater   United States 2:01.70
5 Rodolfo Falcón   Cuba 2:02.87
6 Paul Szekula   Canada 2:04.83
7 Stephen Hulford   Canada 2:05.60
8 Tomas Bisono   Dominican Republic 2:07.44

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 25 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 2013-10-26.
  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 2010-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.