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

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Women's 200 metre backstroke at the VIII Pan American Games
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VenuePiscina Olimpica Del Escambron
DatesJuly 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Linda Jezek  Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Cheryl Gibson  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Bronze medal icon.svg   Libby Kinkead  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

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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.
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