Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Steve Lundquist   United States   John Simmons   United States   Pablo Restrepo   Colombia
«1975 1983»

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 5 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Rick Colella of US.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 5.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Simmons	United States	2:23.53	Q
2	Steve Lundquist	United States	2:24.56	Q
3	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	2:24.71	Q
4	Graham Smith	Canada	2:25.22	Q
5	Greg Wurzbach	Canada	2:26.38	Q
6	Helmut Levy	Colombia	2:27.47	Q
7	Orlando Catinchi	Puerto Rico	2:27.78	Q, NR
8	Luiz Carvalho	Brazil	2:27.78	Q
9	Andrey Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:27.91	NR
10	Glen Sochasky	Venezuela	2:28.57	NR
11	Oscar González	Mexico	2:31.28
12	Celso Ogata	Brazil	2:31.80
13	Jordy Masalles	Dominican Republic	2:44.86	NR
14	Jud Woolard	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:47.41
15	Frank Torres	Puerto Rico	DQ

Final

The final was held on July 5.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Steve Lundquist	United States	2:21.97	NR, GR
	John Simmons	United States	2:22.45
	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	2:23.13	SA
4	Graham Smith	Canada	2:23:26
5	Greg Wurzbach	Canada	2:25.07
6	Helmut Levy	Colombia	2:27.02
7	Orlando Catinchi	Puerto Rico	2:28.08
8	Luiz Carvalho	Brazil	2:28.94

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