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

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Craig Beardsley   United States   George Nagy   Canada   Bill Sawchuk   Canada
«1975 1983»

The men's 200 metre butterfly 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 Greg Jagenburg of US.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.^[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	Craig Beardsley	United States	2:05.38	Q
2	George Nagy	Canada	2:05.66	Q
3	Bill Sawchuk	Canada	2:06.26	Q
4	Glynn Perry	United States	2:06.44	Q
5	Jorge Jaramillo	Colombia	2:06.86	Q
6	Carlos Fontoura	Brazil	2:07.56	Q
7	Filiberto Colon	Puerto Rico	2:07.99	Q
8	Rafael Vidal	Venezuela	2:08.35	Q
9	Bernardo Lesser	Mexico	2:09.31	NR
10	Victor López	Puerto Rico	2:09.86
11	David Lindquist	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:12.08	NR
12	Caio Filardi	Brazil	2:12.14
13	Claudio Lutotovich	Argentina	2:16.49
14	Enrique Leite	Uruguay	2:16.97
15	Miguel Oqueli	El Salvador	2:17.96	NR
16	Roberto Ledesma	Ecuador	2:22.33
17	Donaldo Clough	Dominican Republic	2:22.86
18	Víctor Masalles	Dominican Republic	2:28.11

Final

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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Craig Beardsley	United States	2:00.49	NR, GR
	George Nagy	Canada	2:02.15
	Bill Sawchuk	Canada	2:02.93
4	Glynn Perry	United States	2:03.84
5	Filiberto Colon	Puerto Rico	2:06.45	NR
6	Carlos Fontoura	Brazil	2:06.50
7	Jorge Jaramillo	Colombia	2:06.79
8	Rafael Vidal	Venezuela	2:06.86

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