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

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

Contents

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke. [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 5. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Anne Gagnon Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:40.82Q
2 Joanne Bédard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:42.00Q
3 Alicia Boscatto Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:43.57Q
4 Patty Spees Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:43.91Q
5 Elke Holtz Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:44.01Q, NR
6 Renee Laravie Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:44.12Q
7 Yolanda Mendiola Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:45.67Q
8 Maria Matta Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:46.83Q
9 Vilma Aguilera Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:49.04
10 Agnes Nilsson Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:50.66

Final

The final was held on July 5. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Anne Gagnon Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:35.75 NR , GR
Silver medal icon.svg Joanne Bédard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:40.22
Bronze medal icon.svg Patty Spees Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:40.79
4 Renee Laravie Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:41.84
5 Alicia Boscatto Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:42.32 NR
6 Elke Holtz Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:44.50
7 Yolanda Mendiola Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:45.88
8 Maria Matta Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:46.94

References

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