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

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates July 7 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Canada
«1975
1983»
Swimming at the
1979 Pan American Games
Freestyle
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The Women's 200m Butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 7 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Camille Wright 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.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on July 7.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Mary T. Meagher  United States 2:16.33 Q
2 Kelly Albright  Canada 2:17.45 Q
3 Karinne Miller  United States 2:18.04 Q
4 Shelley Cramer  U.S. Virgin Islands 2:18.20 Q
5 Nancy Garapick  Canada 2:18.57 Q
6 Rosanna Juncos  Argentina 2:22.51 Q
7 Maria Hung  Venezuela 2:26.68 Q
8 Paula Amorim  Brazil 2:26.85 Q
9 Maria Paris  Costa Rica 2:26.93
10 Lisa Escalera  Puerto Rico 2:32.59
11 Adriana Pereira  Brazil DQ

Final

The final was held on July 7.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Mary T. Meagher  United States 2:09.77 WR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Karinne Miller  United States 2:15.05
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Nancy Garapick  Canada 2:16.40
4 Kelly Albright  Canada 2:16.77
5 Shelley Cramer  U.S. Virgin Islands 2:17.78 NR
6 Rosanna Juncos  Argentina 2:24.51
7 Paula Amorim  Brazil 2:26.47
8 Maria Hung  Venezuela 2:29.09

References

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