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

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the XI Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
 Rogério Romero  Brazil
 Dan Veatch  United States
 Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico
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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, gold medalist(s) Rogério Romero  Brazil 2:01.07
2nd, silver medalist(s) Dan Veatch  United States 2:01.14
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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

  1. 1 2 "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 25 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.
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