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Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Brazil
Bronze medal   Canada
«1979
1987»

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 19 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Peter Rocca of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

Results

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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

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Final

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The final was held on August 19.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rick Carey  United States 1:59.34 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ricardo Prado  Brazil 2:02.85 SA
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mike West  Canada 2:03.11
4 Cameron Henning  Canada 2:03.33
5 Richey Hughey  United States 2:06.67
6 Giovanni Frigo  Venezuela 2:07.81 NR
7 Jorge Macario  Venezuela 2:15.60
8 Allan Marsh  Jamaica 2:16.56

References

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  1. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 13 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 2013-10-13.
  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.