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

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

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Jesse Vassallo   United States   Graham Smith   Canada   Scott Spann   United States
«1975 1983»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.[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 6.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Vassallo	United States	2:07.90	Q
2	Graham Smith	Canada	2:08.99	Q
3	Bill Sawchuk	Canada	2:09.67	Q
4	Scott Spann	United States	2:10.16	Q
5	Helmut Levy	Colombia	2:10.39	Q
6	Jorge Varela	Mexico	2:10.60	Q
7	Andrey Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:10.78	Q, NR
8	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	2:13.93	Q
9	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	2:14.15
10	José de Jesus	Puerto Rico	2:14.47
11	David Lindquist	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:14.73	NR
12	Emilio Abreu	Paraguay	2:15.16	NR
13	Glen Sochasky	Venezuela	2:16.02	NR
14	Antonio Cerezo	Puerto Rico	2:16.51
15	Andrew Philipps	Jamaica	2:16.68
16	Roberto Ledesma	Ecuador	2:21.50
17	Enrique Leite	Uruguay	2:21.67
18	Donaldo Clough	Dominican Republic	2:34.30

Final

The final was held on July 6.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jesse Vassallo	United States	2:03.29	WR
	Graham Smith	Canada	2:05.86
	Scott Spann	United States	2:06.29
4	Bill Sawchuk	Canada	2:07.51
5	Helmut Levy	Colombia	2:08.76	NR
6	Jorge Varela	Mexico	2:09.63	NR
7	Andrey Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:11.51	NR
8	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	2:14.89

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.