The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1991 Pan American Games took place on 14 August. The last Pan American Games champion was Mike O'Brien of US.Hickoksports Hickosports ResultsPan 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 backstroke.
Rogério Romero won the gold medal, breaking a string of 5 U.S. titles in a row. Before him, only one other non-American had won the race; the Canadian Ralph Hutton won in 1967 in the first edition of the Games in which this race was held.
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats
Final The final was held on August 14. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Rogério Romero 2:01.07 Dan Veatch 2:01.14 Manuel Guzmán 2:01.68 4 Brad Bridgewater 2:01.70 5 Rodolfo Falcón 2:02.87 6 Paul Szekula 2:04.83 7 Stephen Hulford 2:05.60 8 Tomas Bisono 2:07.44
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