The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 21 August. The last Pan American Games champion was Craig Beardsley of the United States.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
Final The final was held on August 21. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Craig Beardsley 1:58.85 GR Ricardo Prado 1:59.00 SA Rafael Vidal 1:59.17 NR 4 Filiberto Colon 2:01.35 5 Tom Ponting 2:01.48 6 Pablo Morales 2:01.88 7 Lance Schroeder 2:03.19 8 Andrey Aguilar 2:07.26
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