Swimming at the 1991 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1991 Pan American Games took place on 14 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Mike O'Brien of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the XI Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
 Rogério Romero  Brazil
 Dan Veatch  United States
 Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico
«1987
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This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

Rogério Romero won the gold medal, breaking a string of 5 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only other non-American had won the race, the Canadian Ralph Hutton, in the first edition of the Games which this race was held, in 1967.

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 14.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Rogério Romero Brazil2:01.07
Dan Veatch United States2:01.14
Manuel Guzmán Puerto Rico2:01.68
4Brad Bridgewater United States2:01.70
5Rodolfo Falcón Cuba2:02.87
6Paul Szekula Canada2:04.83
7Stephen Hulford Canada2:05.60
8Tomas Bisono Dominican Republic2:07.44

References
  1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  2. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
  3. Hickosports Results
  4. All Pan medalists - Male
  5. All Pan medalists - Female
  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 2010-07-16 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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