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

The women's 200 metre individual medley 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 Claudia Kolb of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the VI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Leslie Cliff   Canada   Susie Atwood   United States   Cindy Plaisted   United States
«1967 1975»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.[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
	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:30.0
	Susie Atwood	United States	2:30.3
	Cindy Plaisted	United States	2:33.2
4	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	2:35.1	SA
5	Rosemary Ribeiro	Brazil	2:36.5
6	Laura Vaca	Mexico	2:37.9
7	Patrícia Clano	Colombia	2:42.2
8	Patrícia Muniz	Argentina	2:42.9

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.