Swimming at the 1975 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 1975 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	October 22 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Donna Wennerstrom    United States   Lynn Chénard    Canada   Cheryl Gibson    Canada
«1971 1979»

The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1975 Pan American Games took place on 22 October. ^{[1] [2]} The last Pan American Games champion was Donna Gurr of Canada. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

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

Final

The final was held on October 22. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Donna Wennerstrom	United States	2:19.93	GR
	Lynn Chénard	Canada	2:21.26
	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	2:22.68
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6	Rosamaria Prado	Brazil	2:32.53
7	-	-	-
8	-	-	-

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - 23 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 37". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 1 September 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 1975 Pan
9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.