Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal Frank Heckl  United States
Silver medal Jim McConica  United States
Bronze medal Ralph Hutton  Canada
«1967
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The men's 200 metre freestyle 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 Don Schollander of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[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

Heats

Final

The final was held on August 6.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Frank Heckl  United States 1:56.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jim McConica  United States 1:58.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ralph Hutton  Canada 1:59.9
4 Jorge Delgado  Ecuador 2:00.5
5 Fernando González  Ecuador 2:02.6
6 Tomás Becerra  Colombia 2:02.8
7 Alfredo Machado  Brazil 2:03:0
8 David Johnson  Canada 2:03.0

References

  1. ^ a b "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". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  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.