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

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the XI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Rogério Romero   Brazil   Dan Veatch   United States   Manuel Guzmán   Puerto Rico
«1987 1995»

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]}

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:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 14.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rogério Romero	Brazil	2:01.07
	Dan Veatch	United States	2:01.14
	Manuel Guzmán	Puerto Rico	2:01.68
4	Brad Bridgewater	United States	2:01.70
5	Rodolfo Falcón	Cuba	2:02.87
6	Paul Szekula	Canada	2:04.83
7	Stephen Hulford	Canada	2:05.60
8	Tomas Bisono	Dominican Republic	2:07.44

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
2. Hickoksports
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
8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.