Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 5 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Dan Harrigan of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Peter Rocca   United States   Jesse Vassallo   United States   Djan Madruga   Brazil
«1975 1983»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

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

Heats

The first round was held on July 5.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Vassallo	United States	2:05.93	Q
2	Peter Rocca	United States	2:06.52	Q
3	Conrado Porta	Argentina	2:06.85	Q
4	Rob Wallenius	Canada	2:08.39	Q
5	Wade Flemons	Canada	2:08.97	Q
6	Djan Madruga	Brazil	2:09.48	Q
7	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	2:10.15	Q
8	José Urueta	Mexico	2:10.83	Q
9	Jorge Varela	Mexico	2:10.84
10	Victor Vasallo	Puerto Rico	2:11.98
11	Carlos Berrocal	Puerto Rico	2:13.19
12	Jose Luis Yepes	Ecuador	2:13.25	NR
13	Alvaro Roda	Uruguay	2:13.50
14	Erik Rosskopf	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:21.69
15	Donaldo Clough	Dominican Republic	2:24.56	NR

Final

The final was held on July 5.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Peter Rocca	United States	2:00.98	NR, GR
	Jesse Vassallo	United States	2:02.07
	Djan Madruga	Brazil	2:04.74	NR
4	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	2:04.99
5	Conrado Porta	Argentina	2:05.33
6	Wade Flemons	Canada	2:07.90
7	Rob Wallenius	Canada	2:08.40
8	José Urueta	Mexico	2:10.25

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
2. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
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 Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.