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. The last Pan American Games champion was Dan Harrigan of US.Hickoksports Hickosports ResultsAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on July 5.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Jesse Vassallo 2:05.93 Q 2 Peter Rocca 2:06.52 Q 3 Conrado Porta 2:06.85 Q 4 Rob Wallenius 2:08.39 Q 5 Wade Flemons 2:08.97 Q 6 Djan Madruga 2:09.48 Q 7 Rômulo Arantes 2:10.15 Q 8 José Urueta 2:10.83 Q 9 Jorge Varela 2:10.84 10 Victor Vasallo 2:11.98 11 Carlos Berrocal 2:13.19 12 Jose Luis Yepes 2:13.25 NR 13 Alvaro Roda 2:13.50 14 Erik Rosskopf 2:21.69 15 Donaldo Clough 2:24.56 NR
Final The final was held on July 5. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Peter Rocca 2:00.98 NR, GR Jesse Vassallo 2:02.07 Djan Madruga 2:04.74 NR 4 Rômulo Arantes 2:04.99 5 Conrado Porta 2:05.33 6 Wade Flemons 2:07.90 7 Rob Wallenius 2:08.40 8 José Urueta 2:10.25
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