Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games

Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games

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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
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The Swimming Tournament at the 1979 Pan American Games took place in the Piscina Olimpica del Escambron in San Juan, Puerto Rico from July 2 to July 8, 1979.^[1]^[2]

Three world records were broken at this edition of the Games, all by U.S. swimmers.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	David McCagg (USA)	50.77	Fernando Cañales (PUR)	51.25	John Newton (USA)	51.45
200 m freestyle details	Rowdy Gaines (USA)	1:51.22	David Larson (USA)	1:52.24	Djan Madruga (BRA)	1:52.34
400 m freestyle details	Brian Goodell (USA)	3:53.01	Djan Madruga (BRA)	3:57.46	Peter Szmidt (CAN)	3:58.34
1500 m freestyle details	Brian Goodell (USA)	15:24.36	Djan Madruga (BRA)	15:41.74	Bobby Hackett (USA)	15:46.83

100 m backstroke details	Bob Jackson (USA)	56.66	Rômulo Arantes (BRA)	57.20	Steve Pickell (CAN)	57.89
200 m backstroke details	Peter Rocca (USA)	2:00.98	Jesse Vassallo (USA)	2:02.07	Djan Madruga (BRA)	2:04.74

100 m breaststroke details	Steve Lundquist (USA)	1:03.82	Greg Winchell (USA)	1:04.76	Graham Smith (CAN)	1:05.66
200 m breaststroke details	Steve Lundquist (USA)	2:21.97	John Simmons (USA)	2:22.45	Pablo Restrepo (COL)	2:23.13

100 m butterfly details	Robert Placak (USA)	55.54	Dan Thompson (CAN)	55.56	Clay Evans (CAN)	56.63
200 m butterfly details	Craig Beardsley (USA)	2:00.49	George Nagy (CAN)	2:02.15	Bill Sawchuk (CAN)	2:02.93

200 m individual medley details	Jesse Vassallo (USA)	2:03.29 WR	Graham Smith (CAN)	2:05.86	Scott Spann (USA)	2:06.29
400 m individual medley details	Jesse Vassallo (USA)	4:21.63	Bill Sawchuk (CAN)	4:30.21	Alex Baumann (CAN)	4:32.42

4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	UNITED STATES Rowdy Gaines Jack Babashoff John Newton David McCagg	3:23.71	CANADA Graham Welbourn Alan Swanston Bill Sawchuk Peter Szmidt	3:29.64	BRAZIL Cyro Marques Djan Madruga Marcus Mattioli Rômulo Arantes	3:30.86
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	UNITED STATES Brian Goodell David Larson Kris Kirchner Rowdy Gaines	7:31.28	BRAZIL Cyro Marques Djan Madruga Jorge Fernandes Marcus Mattioli	7:38.92	CANADA Peter Szmidt Graham Welbourn Rob Bayliss Bill Sawchuk	7:39.27
4 × 100 m medley relay details	UNITED STATES Bob Jackson Steve Lundquist Bob Placak David McCagg	3:47.20	CANADA Steve Pickell Graham Smith Dan Thompson Bill Sawchuk	3:50.02	PUERTO RICO Carlos Berrocal Orlando Catinchi Arnaldo Pérez Fernando Cañales	3:54.63

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Cynthia Woodhead (USA)	56.22	Jill Sterkel (USA)	56.24	Gail Amundrud (CAN)	57.79
200 m freestyle details	Cynthia Woodhead (USA)	1:58.43 WR	Kim Linehan (USA)	2:01.92	Gail Amundrud (CAN)	2:03.38
400 m freestyle details	Cynthia Woodhead (USA)	4:10.56	Tracy Caulkins (USA)	4:16.13	Wendy Quirk (CAN)	4:17.34
800 m freestyle details	Kim Linehan (USA)	8:39.82	Jennifer Hooker (USA)	8:50.71	Barbara Shockey (CAN)	8:54.82

100 m backstroke details	Linda Jezek (USA)	1:03.33	Cheryl Gibson (CAN)	1:05.17	Teresa Rivera (MEX)	1:06.87
200 m backstroke details	Linda Jezek (USA)	2:16.07	Cheryl Gibson (CAN)	2:17.58	Libby Kinkead (USA)	2:20.19

100 m breaststroke details	Tami Paumier (USA)	1:12.20	Tracy Caulkins (USA)	1:12.52	Anne Gagnon (CAN)	1:14.38
200 m breaststroke details	Anne Gagnon (CAN)	2:35.75	Joanne Bédard (CAN)	2:40.22	Patricia Speeds (USA)	2:40.79

100 m butterfly details	Jill Sterkel (USA)	1:00.53	Lisa Buese (USA)	1:00.59	Nancy Garapick (CAN)	1:02.96
200 m butterfly details	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:09.77 WR	Karinne Miller (USA)	2:15.05	Nancy Garapick (CAN)	2:16.40

200 m individual medley details	Tracy Caulkins (USA)	2:16.11	Nancy Garapick (CAN)	2:19.36	Anne Tweedy (USA)	2:20.33
400 m individual medley details	Tracy Caulkins (USA)	4:46.05	Anne Tweedy (USA)	4:47.19	Nancy Garapick (CAN)	4:53.37

4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	UNITED STATES Stephanie Elkins Tracy Caulkins Jill Sterkel Cynthia Woodhead	3:45.82	CANADA Gail Amundrud Carol Klimpel Anne Jardin Wendy Quirk	3:50.18	MEXICO Teresa Rivera Isabel Reuss Yvonne Guerrero Helen Plachinski	4:02.05
4 × 100 m medley relay details	UNITED STATES Linda Jezek Tracy Caulkins Jill Sterkel Cynthia Woodhead	4:13.24	CANADA Cheryl Gibson Anne Gagnon Nancy Garapick Gail Amundrud	4:20.16	MEXICO Teresa Rivera Elke Holtz Helen Plachinski Inez Guerrero	4:30.59

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	28	12	6	46
2	Canada	1	12	15	28
3	Brazil	0	4	3	7
4	Puerto Rico	0	1	1	2
5	Mexico	0	0	3	3
6	Colombia	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		29	29	29	87

Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games

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Medal table

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