Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the VI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Frank Heckl   United States   Jim McConica   United States   Ralph Hutton   Canada
«1967 1975»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[9]

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 6.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Frank Heckl	United States	1:56.4
	Jim McConica	United States	1:58.2
	Ralph Hutton	Canada	1:59.9
4	Jorge Delgado	Ecuador	2:00.5
5	Fernando González	Ecuador	2:02.6
6	Tomás Becerra	Colombia	2:02.8
7	Alfredo Machado	Brazil	2:03:0
8	David Johnson	Canada	2:03.0

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 7, 1971, Morning, General, page 17". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
2. O GLOBO News Archive
3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
4. Resultados
5. All Pan medalists - Male
6. All Pan medalists - Female
7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
8. Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.