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

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 6 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. The last Pan American Games champion was Steve Furniss 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, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on July 6.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Jesse Vassallo 2:07.90 Q 2 Graham Smith 2:08.99 Q 3 Bill Sawchuk 2:09.67 Q 4 Scott Spann 2:10.16 Q 5 Helmut Levy 2:10.39 Q 6 Jorge Varela 2:10.60 Q 7 Andrey Aguilar 2:10.78 Q, NR 8 Ricardo Prado 2:13.93 Q 9 Pablo Restrepo 2:14.15 10 José de Jesus 2:14.47 11 David Lindquist 2:14.73 NR 12 Emilio Abreu 2:15.16 NR 13 Glen Sochasky 2:16.02 NR 14 Antonio Cerezo 2:16.51 15 Andrew Philipps 2:16.68 16 Roberto Ledesma 2:21.50 17 Enrique Leite 2:21.67 18 Donaldo Clough 2:34.30

Final The final was held on July 6. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jesse Vassallo 2:03.29 WR Graham Smith 2:05.86 Scott Spann 2:06.29 4 Bill Sawchuk 2:07.51 5 Helmut Levy 2:08.76 NR 6 Jorge Varela 2:09.63 NR 7 Andrey Aguilar 2:11.51 NR 8 Ricardo Prado 2:14.89

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