Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal Rick Carey  United States
Silver medal Ricardo Prado  Brazil
Bronze medal Mike West  Canada
«1979
1987»
Swimming at the
1983 Pan American Games
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 19 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Peter Rocca of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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

Final

The final was held on August 19.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rick Carey  United States 1:59.34 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ricardo Prado  Brazil 2:02.85 SA
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mike West  Canada 2:03.11
4 Cameron Henning  Canada 2:03.33
5 Richey Hughey  United States 2:06.67
6 Giovanni Frigo  Venezuela 2:07.81 NR
7 Jorge Macario  Venezuela 2:15.60
8 Allan Marsh  Jamaica 2:16.56

References

  1. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. ^ Hickosports Results
  4. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  5. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  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.