Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre butterfly
Games:	2011
Venue:	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:	October 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	17
Nations:	11
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Albert Subirats
Goldnoc:	VEN
Silver:	Eugene Godsoe
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Christopher Brady
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2007
Next:	2015

The men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on 20 October at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Kaio de Almeida of Brazil.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly.^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record		49.82	Rome, Italy	August 1, 2009
Pan American Games record		52.05	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 18, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (54.6) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 4, 2011). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (56.2) in the same qualifying period.^[2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on October 20.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[3]	Notes
1	2	5	align=left		align=left		52.95	QA
2	3	5	align=left		align=left		53.67	QA
3	3	3	align=left		align=left		53.76	QA
4	1	3	align=left		align=left		53.83	QA
5	3	4	align=left		align=left		53.84	QA
6	2	3	align=left		align=left		53.87	QA
7	2	4	align=left		align=left		53.88	QA
8	1	4	align=left		align=left		54.21	QA
9	1	5	align=left		align=left		54.51	QB
10	3	2	align=left		align=left		54.56	QB
11	1	2	align=left		align=left		55.18	QB
12	2	2	align=left		align=left		55.27	QB
13	3	7	align=left		align=left		55.28	QB
14	3	6	align=left		align=left		55.31	QB
15	1	6	align=left		align=left		57.18	QB
	2	6	align=left		align=left			DNS
	2	7	align=left		align=left			DNS

B Final

The B final was also held on October 20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	align=left		align=left		54.15
10	5	align=left		align=left		54.26
11	7	align=left		align=left		54.77
12	3	align=left		align=left		54.94
13	6	align=left		align=left		55.00
14	2	align=left		align=left		55.63
15	1	align=left		align=left		56.10

A Final

The A final was held on October 20.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[5]	Notes
	2	align=left		align=left		52.37
	8	align=left		align=left		52.67
	5	align=left		align=left		52.95
4	6	align=left		align=left		52.96
5	3	align=left		align=left		53.17
6	4	align=left		align=left		53.24
7	7	align=left		align=left		53.43
8	1	align=left		align=left		53.62

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sessions. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110626223053/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/boletaje/lista-de-sesiones.pdf. 26 June 2011.
2. Web site: Swimming Technical Manual. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf. 28 July 2011.
3. Web site: Men's 100m Butterfly Preliminaries. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
4. Web site: Finals – Day 6 . Best Swimming . 2011 . December 1, 2013.
5. Web site: Men's 100m Butterfly Final A. https://web.archive.org/web/20111023212436/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/SW/SWR173A_SWM02102130000001ENG.htm. dead. October 23, 2011. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.