Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 9 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Elaine Tanner of Canada.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the VI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 9 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Donna Gurr   Canada   Susie Atwood   United States   Barbara Darby   United States
«1967 1975»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[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 9.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Donna Gurr	Canada	2:24.7
	Susie Atwood	United States	2:26.5
	Barbara Darby	United States	2:30.7
4	Adriana Grebnikof	Argentina	2:36.8
5	Patrícia Muniz	Argentina	2:38.6
6	Lucila Martins	Brazil	2:43.1
7	Cristiane Paquelet	Brazil	2:44.3
8	Patrícia Hernandez	Mexico	2:45.0

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 10, 1971, Morning, General, page 24". 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.