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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	17 August 1983 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Bruce Hayes   United States   Alberto Mestre   Venezuela   Rowdy Gaines   United States
«1979 1987»

The men's 200-metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 17 August 1983.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Rowdy Gaines of the US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all performed in freestyle.[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 17.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bruce Hayes	United States	1:49.89	GR
	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	1:50.36	SA
	Rowdy Gaines	United States	1:51.27
4	Peter Szmidt	Canada	1:53.16
5	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	1:53.95
6	Jean François	Venezuela	1:53.95
7	Carlos Scanavino	Uruguay	1:54.01	NR
8	Cyro Delgado	Brazil	1:54.14

References

1. "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.