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

The women's 200 metre breaststroke 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 Catie Ball of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the VI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 9 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Lynn Colella   United States   Jane Wright   Canada   Leonor Urrueta   Mexico
«1967 1975»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.[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
	Lynn Colella	United States	2:50.0
	Jane Wright	Canada	2:50.9	NR
	Leonor Urrueta	Mexico	2:52.7
4	Kimla Brecht	United States	2:55.4
5	Rose Marie Pepe	Canada	2:55.9
6	Angela Lopez	Puerto Rico	2:58.3
7	Cristina Teixeira	Brazil	3:00.4
8	Eliane Pereira	Brazil	3:07.2

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.