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

The men's 200 metre butterfly 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 Mark Spitz of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the VI Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 8 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
 Jorge Delgado  Ecuador
 Robb Orr  United States
 Augusto González  Peru
«1967
1975»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.[9]

At this race, two swimmers won the first medals of their countries in swimming at Pan American Games at all times: Jorge Delgado got the gold for Ecuador, and Augusto González, the bronze for Peru.

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
Jorge Delgado Ecuador2:06.4= GR, SA
Robb Orr United States2:08.4
Augusto González Peru2:09.9
4Robert Clarke United States2:10.1
5Tomás Becerra Colombia2:11.2
6Ricardo Marmolejo Mexico2:12.0
7Ron Jacks Canada2:13.0
8Francisco Ramos Brazil2:14.2

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 Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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