Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley
The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 22 August. The last Pan American Games champion was Jesse Vassallo of US.
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.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 August 22.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Ricardo Prado | | 2:04.51 | |
| Bill Barrett | | 2:04.91 | |
| Steve Lundquist | | 2:06.37 | |
| 4 | Cam Reid | | 2:08.05 | |
| 5 | Pablo Restrepo | | 2:09.41 | |
| 6 | Andrey Aguilar | | 2:11.93 | |
| 7 | Peter Dobson | | 2:12.20 | |
| 8 | Ivan Ortiz | | 2:15.64 | |
