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

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the IX Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   Brazil
   Canada
«1979
1987»

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: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 19.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Rick Carey  United States 1:59.34 GR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Ricardo Prado  Brazil 2:02.85 SA
3rd, 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

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