Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 8 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was José Fiolo of Brazil.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the VI Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   Mexico
   United States
«1967
1975»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 8.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Rick Colella United States2:27.1GR
Felipe Muñoz Mexico2:27.2
Brian Job United States2:28.1
4Bill Mahony Canada2:29.6
5José Sylvio Fiolo Brazil2:31.9
6Gustavo Salacedo Mexico2:33.2
7Mike Whitaker Canada2:34.2
8José de Oliveira Brazil2:35.1

References

  1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 9, 1971, Evening, General, page 42". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 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
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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