Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 1979 Pan American Games
VenuePiscina Olimpica Del Escambron
DatesJuly 2 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal Rowdy Gaines  United States
Silver medal David Larson  United States
Bronze medal Djan Madruga  Brazil
«1975
1983»
Swimming at the
1979 Pan American Games
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 200 metre freestyle 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 Jorge Delgado of Ecuador.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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

Results

All times shown 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

The first round was held on July 2.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Rowdy Gaines  United States 1:53.25 Q
2 David Larson  United States 1:53.34 Q
3 Peter Szmidt  Canada 1:53.55 Q
4 Djan Madruga  Brazil 1:53.91 Q
5 Fernando Cañales  Puerto Rico 1:53.92 Q
6 Bill Sawchuk  Canada 1:54.53 Q
7 Marcus Mattioli  Brazil 1:55.95 Q
8 Ernesto Domenack  Peru 1:56.11 Q
9 Filiberto Colon  Puerto Rico 1:57.35
10 Scott Newkirk  U.S. Virgin Islands 1:57.64
11 Diego Quiroga  Ecuador 1:57.69
12 Jean François  Venezuela 1:58.05
13 Richard Sasser  Mexico 1:58.61
14 Alberto Mestre  Venezuela 1:59.08
15 Oscar González  Mexico 1:59.16
16 Daniel Garimaldi  Argentina 2:03.21
17 Donaldo Clough  Dominican Republic 2:03.65 NR
18 Oscar Moreno  El Salvador 2:03.84
19 Alfredo Mackliff  Ecuador 2:03.86
20 Ruben Martinez  El Salvador 2:05.47
21 Jorge Sanchez  Panama 2:05.99
22 Emilio Abreu  Panama 2:06.11
23 Juan Tavarez  Dominican Republic 2:11.59

Final

The final was held on July 2.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rowdy Gaines  United States 1:51.22
2nd place, silver medalist(s) David Larson  United States 1:52.24
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Djan Madruga  Brazil 1:52.34 SA
4 Peter Szmidt  Canada 1:53.15
5 Fernando Cañales  Puerto Rico 1:53.57
6 Bill Sawchuk  Canada 1:53.86
7 Marcus Mattioli  Brazil 1:54.89
8 Ernesto Domenack  Peru 1:55.54 NR

References

  1. ^ a b c "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 29 September 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 2013-09-29.
  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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.