Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre backstroke

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Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 1979 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
VenuePiscina Olimpica Del Escambron
DatesJuly 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
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The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 6 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. [1] The last Pan American Games champion was Donna Wennerstrom of US. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Contents

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke. [8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on July 6. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Linda Jezek Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:20.17Q
2 Libby Kinkead Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:20.43Q
3 Suzanne Kwasny Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:24.39Q
4 Cheryl Gibson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:25.14Q
5 Teresa Rivera Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:26.39Q
6 Rosamaria Prado Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:29.42Q
7 Hilda Huerta Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:29.74Q
8 Laura Laguna Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:34.37Q
9 Penny Blakeman Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:37.49
10 Sandra Revette Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 2:37.68
11 Alba Izcoa Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:43.52
12 Silvana Barbato Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 2:44.93

Final

The final was held on July 6. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Linda Jezek Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:16.07 NR , GR
Silver medal icon.svg Cheryl Gibson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:17.58
Bronze medal icon.svg Libby Kinkead Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:20.19
4 Suzanne Kwasny Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:23.79
5 Teresa Rivera Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:24.42 NR
6 Rosamaria Prado Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:28.03
7 Hilda Huerta Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:30.10
8 Laura Laguna Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:33.64

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 7 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 2013-10-09.
  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.