Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The Women's 200m Butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 7 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The last Pan American Games champion was Camille Wright of US.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 lengths being in butterfly stroke.Swimming technical manual

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on July 7.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Mary T. Meagher 2:16.33 Q 2 Kelly Albright 2:17.45 Q 3 Karinne Miller 2:18.04 Q 4 Shelley Cramer 2:18.20 Q 5 Nancy Garapick 2:18.57 Q 6 Rosanna Juncos 2:22.51 Q 7 Maria Hung 2:26.68 Q 8 Paula Amorim 2:26.85 Q 9 Maria Paris 2:26.93 10 Lisa Escalera 2:32.59 11 Adriana Pereira DQ

Final The final was held on July 7. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mary T. Meagher 2:09.77 WR Karinne Miller 2:15.05 Nancy Garapick 2:16.40 4 Kelly Albright 2:16.77 5 Shelley Cramer 2:17.78 NR 6 Rosanna Juncos 2:24.51 7 Paula Amorim 2:26.47 8 Maria Hung 2:29.09

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