Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley
# 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 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

### Final

The final was held on August 22.

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Ricardo Prado | Brazil | 2:04.51 |
| | Bill Barrett | United States | 2:04.91 |
| | Steve Lundquist | United States | 2:06.37 |
| 4 | Cam Reid | Canada | 2:08.05 |
| 5 | Pablo Restrepo | Colombia | 2:09.41 |
| 6 | Andrey Aguilar | Costa Rica | 2:11.93 |
| 7 | Peter Dobson | Canada | 2:12.20 |
| 8 | Ivan Ortiz | Puerto Rico | 2:15.64 |
