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

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the XIII Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Pool
Dates	August 4 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Leonardo Costa   Brazil   Aaron Peirsol   United States   Dan Shevchik   United States
«1995 2003»

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

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

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

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

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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Leonardo Costa	Brazil	1:59.33	GR, SA
02 !	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:59.77
03 !	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

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