Swimming at the 1991 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the XI Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
   Brazil
   United States
   Puerto Rico
«19871995»

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1991 Pan American Games took place on 14 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Mike O'Brien of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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

Rogério Romero won the gold medal, breaking a string of 5 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only other non-American had won the race, the Canadian Ralph Hutton, in the first edition of the Games which this race was held, in 1967.

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 14.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Rogério Romero  Brazil 2:01.07
2nd Dan Veatch  United States 2:01.14
3rd Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico 2:01.68
4 Brad Bridgewater  United States 2:01.70
5 Rodolfo Falcón  Cuba 2:02.87
6 Paul Szekula  Canada 2:04.83
7 Stephen Hulford  Canada 2:05.60
8 Tomas Bisono  Dominican Republic 2:07.44

References

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