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Swimming at the 1999 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1999 Pan American Games
VenuePan Am Pool
DatesAugust 4 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors– from – nations
Medalists
Gold medal   Brazil
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   United States
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The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 4 August at the Pan Am Pool.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Brad Bridgewater of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

Results

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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

Heats

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The first round was held on August 4.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Aaron Peirsol  United States 2:00.39 Q
2 Dan Shevchik  United States 2:01.58 Q
3 Q
4 Q
5 Q
6 Q
7 Q
8 Q

B Final

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The B final was held on August 4.[9]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
9 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 2:06.64
10 George Gleason  U.S. Virgin Islands 2:09.27
11 Diego Gallo  Uruguay 2:11.40
12 Daniel Casey  Ecuador 2:12.17
13 E.A. Gil  El Salvador 2:12.97
14 G.J. Vera  Paraguay 2:14.17
15 Natthew Hammond  Bermuda 2:17.54

A Final

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The A final was held on August 4.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Leonardo Costa  Brazil 1:59.33 GR, SA
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Aaron Peirsol  United States 1:59.77
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dan Shevchik  United States 2:00.27
4 Dustin Hersee  Canada 2:01.30
5 Mark Versfeld  Canada 2:03.52
6 Alejandro Bermúdez  Colombia 2:03.73
7 Neisser Bent  Cuba 2:04.06
8 Mike Fung-A-Wing  Suriname 2:08.70

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  2. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. ^ Hickosports Results
  4. ^ All Pan medalists – Male
  5. ^ "All Pan medalists – Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  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 Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  9. ^ 1999 Full results by Swimnews