Swimming at the 1999 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1999 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Pool
Dates	August 4 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	– from – nations
Medalists
Leonardo Costa    Brazil   Aaron Peirsol    United States   Dan Shevchik    United States
«1995 2003»

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 4 August at the Pan Am Pool. ^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Brad Bridgewater 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:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 4. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aaron Peirsol	United States	2:00.39	Q
2	Dan Shevchik	United States	2:01.58	Q
3	–	–	–	Q
4	–	–	–	Q
5	–	–	–	Q
6	–	–	–	Q
7	–	–	–	Q
8	–	–	–	Q

B Final

The B final was held on August 4. ^[9]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	2:06.64
10	George Gleason	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:09.27
11	Diego Gallo	Uruguay	2:11.40
12	Daniel Casey	Ecuador	2:12.17
13	E.A. Gil	El Salvador	2:12.97
14	G.J. Vera	Paraguay	2:14.17
15	Natthew Hammond	Bermuda	2:17.54

A Final

The A final was held on August 4. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Leonardo Costa	Brazil	1:59.33	GR , SA
	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:59.77
	Dan Shevchik	United States	2:00.27
4	Dustin Hersee	Canada	2:01.30
5	Mark Versfeld	Canada	2:03.52
6	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	2:03.73
7	Neisser Bent	Cuba	2:04.06
8	Mike Fung-A-Wing	Suriname	2:08.70

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 7 November 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 2013-11-09.
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.
9. 1999 Full results by Swimnews