Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Anne Gagnon   Canada   Joanne Bédard   Canada   Patty Spees   United States
«1975	1983»

The women's 200 metre breaststroke 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 Lauri Siering of US.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.^[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	Anne Gagnon	Canada	2:40.82	Q
2	Joanne Bédard	Canada	2:42.00	Q
3	Alicia Boscatto	Argentina	2:43.57	Q
4	Patty Spees	United States	2:43.91	Q
5	Elke Holtz	Mexico	2:44.01	Q, NR
6	Renee Laravie	United States	2:44.12	Q
7	Yolanda Mendiola	Mexico	2:45.67	Q
8	Maria Matta	Brazil	2:46.83	Q
9	Vilma Aguilera	Puerto Rico	2:49.04
10	Agnes Nilsson	Brazil	2:50.66

Final

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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Anne Gagnon	Canada	2:35.75	NR, GR
	Joanne Bédard	Canada	2:40.22
	Patty Spees	United States	2:40.79
4	Renee Laravie	United States	2:41.84
5	Alicia Boscatto	Argentina	2:42.32	NR
6	Elke Holtz	Mexico	2:44.50
7	Yolanda Mendiola	Mexico	2:45.88
8	Maria Matta	Brazil	2:46.94

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 10 October 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.