Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the IX Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Rick Carey   United States   Ricardo Prado   Brazil   Mike West   Canada
«1979	1987»

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 19 August.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Peter Rocca 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

Final

The final was held on August 19.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rick Carey	United States	1:59.34	GR
	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	2:02.85	SA
	Mike West	Canada	2:03.11
4	Cameron Henning	Canada	2:03.33
5	Richey Hughey	United States	2:06.67
6	Giovanni Frigo	Venezuela	2:07.81	NR
7	Jorge Macario	Venezuela	2:15.60
8	Allan Marsh	Jamaica	2:16.56

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 13 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.