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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the VI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Frank Heckl   United States   Jim McConica   United States   Ralph Hutton   Canada
«1967	1975»

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.^[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander of US.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.^[9]

Results

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

Final

The final was held on August 6.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Frank Heckl	United States	1:56.4
	Jim McConica	United States	1:58.2
	Ralph Hutton	Canada	1:59.9
4	Jorge Delgado	Ecuador	2:00.5
5	Fernando González	Ecuador	2:02.6
6	Tomás Becerra	Colombia	2:02.8
7	Alfredo Machado	Brazil	2:03:0
8	David Johnson	Canada	2:03.0

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 7, 1971, Morning, General, page 17". O GLOBO. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
2. O GLOBO News Archive
3. Hickoksports
4. Resultados
5. All Pan medalists - Male
6. All Pan medalists - Female
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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.