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

The men's 200 metre breaststroke 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 Rick Colella of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Steve Lundquist   United States   John Simmons   United States   Pablo Restrepo   Colombia
«1975 1983»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.[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	John Simmons	United States	2:23.53	Q
2	Steve Lundquist	United States	2:24.56	Q
3	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	2:24.71	Q
4	Graham Smith	Canada	2:25.22	Q
5	Greg Wurzbach	Canada	2:26.38	Q
6	Helmut Levy	Colombia	2:27.47	Q
7	Orlando Catinchi	Puerto Rico	2:27.78	Q, NR
8	Luiz Carvalho	Brazil	2:27.78	Q
9	Andrey Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:27.91	NR
10	Glen Sochasky	Venezuela	2:28.57	NR
11	Oscar González	Mexico	2:31.28
12	Celso Ogata	Brazil	2:31.80
13	Jordy Masalles	Dominican Republic	2:44.86	NR
14	Jud Woolard	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:47.41
15	Frank Torres	Puerto Rico	DQ

Final

The final was held on July 5.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Steve Lundquist	United States	2:21.97	NR, GR
	John Simmons	United States	2:22.45
	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	2:23.13	SA
4	Graham Smith	Canada	2:23:26
5	Greg Wurzbach	Canada	2:25.07
6	Helmut Levy	Colombia	2:27.02
7	Orlando Catinchi	Puerto Rico	2:28.08
8	Luiz Carvalho	Brazil	2:28.94

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.