The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 2 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. The last Pan American Games champion was Jorge Delgado of Ecuador.Hickoksports Hickosports ResultsAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.
Results All times shown are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on July 2.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Rowdy Gaines 1:53.25 Q 2 David Larson 1:53.34 Q 3 Peter Szmidt 1:53.55 Q 4 Djan Madruga 1:53.91 Q 5 Fernando Cañales 1:53.92 Q 6 Bill Sawchuk 1:54.53 Q 7 Marcus Mattioli 1:55.95 Q 8 Ernesto Domenack 1:56.11 Q 9 Filiberto Colon 1:57.35 10 Scott Newkirk 1:57.64 11 Diego Quiroga 1:57.69 12 Jean François 1:58.05 13 Richard Sasser 1:58.61 14 Alberto Mestre 1:59.08 15 Oscar González 1:59.16 16 Daniel Garimaldi 2:03.21 17 Donaldo Clough 2:03.65 NR 18 Oscar Moreno 2:03.84 19 Alfredo Mackliff 2:03.86 20 Ruben Martinez 2:05.47 21 Jorge Sanchez 2:05.99 22 Emilio Abreu 2:06.11 23 Juan Tavarez 2:11.59
Final The final was held on July 2. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Rowdy Gaines 1:51.22 David Larson 1:52.24 Djan Madruga 1:52.34 SA 4 Peter Szmidt 1:53.15 5 Fernando Cañales 1:53.57 6 Bill Sawchuk 1:53.86 7 Marcus Mattioli 1:54.89 8 Ernesto Domenack 1:55.54 NR
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