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

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Peter Rocca   United States   Jesse Vassallo   United States   Djan Madruga   Brazil
«1975	1983»

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 5 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Dan Harrigan of US.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

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

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

Heats

The first round was held on July 5.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Vassallo	United States	2:05.93	Q
2	Peter Rocca	United States	2:06.52	Q
3	Conrado Porta	Argentina	2:06.85	Q
4	Rob Wallenius	Canada	2:08.39	Q
5	Wade Flemons	Canada	2:08.97	Q
6	Djan Madruga	Brazil	2:09.48	Q
7	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	2:10.15	Q
8	José Urueta	Mexico	2:10.83	Q
9	Jorge Varela	Mexico	2:10.84
10	Victor Vasallo	Puerto Rico	2:11.98
11	Carlos Berrocal	Puerto Rico	2:13.19
12	Jose Luis Yepes	Ecuador	2:13.25	NR
13	Alvaro Roda	Uruguay	2:13.50
14	Erik Rosskopf	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:21.69
15	Donaldo Clough	Dominican Republic	2:24.56	NR

Final

The final was held on July 5.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Peter Rocca	United States	2:00.98	NR, GR
	Jesse Vassallo	United States	2:02.07
	Djan Madruga	Brazil	2:04.74	NR
4	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	2:04.99
5	Conrado Porta	Argentina	2:05.33
6	Wade Flemons	Canada	2:07.90
7	Rob Wallenius	Canada	2:08.40
8	José Urueta	Mexico	2:10.25

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
2. Hickoksports
3. Hickosports Results
4. All Pan medalists - Male
5. All Pan medalists - Female
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
8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.