Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1951 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Héctor Domínguez  Argentina
Silver medal Willy Otto Jordan  Brazil
Bronze medal Bowen Stassforth  United States
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The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on 6 March.[1][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.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 6.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Héctor Domínguez  Argentina 2:43.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Willy Otto Jordan  Brazil 2:47.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bowen Stassforth  United States 2:47.6
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5 - - -
6 Adhemar Grijó Filho  Brazil -
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References

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 7, 1951, Morning, General, page 8". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. ^ Results
  5. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  6. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.