Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Games:	2011
Venue:	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:	October 18 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	17
Nations:	13
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Sean Mahoney
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Clark Burckle
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Thiago Pereira
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	2007
Next:	2015

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on October 18 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Thiago Pereira of Brazil.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.^[2]

Records

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

World record		2:07.31	Rome, Italy	July 30, 2009
Pan American Games record		2:13.37	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	August 14, 2003

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:21.7) 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 (2:26.0) in the same qualifying period.^[2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on October 18.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[3]	Notes
1	1	4	align=left		align=left		2:14.20	QA
2	3	5	align=left		align=left		2:15.76	QA
3	1	5	align=left		align=left		2:16.06	QA
4	3	4	align=left		align=left		2:17.15	QA
5	2	5	align=left		align=left		2:17.36	QA
6	3	3	align=left		align=left		2:18.59	QA
7	2	4	align=left		align=left		2:20.30	QA
8	2	2	align=left		align=left		2:20.78	QA
9	2	3	align=left		align=left		2:20.92	QB
10	1	3	align=left		align=left		2:23.08	QB
11	1	6	align=left		align=left		2:24.04	QB
12	3	6	align=left		align=left		2:24.51	QB
13	2	7	align=left		align=left		2:26.69	QB
14	2	6	align=left		align=left		2:26.95	QB
15	1	2	align=left		align=left		2:27.78	QB
16	3	7	align=left		align=left		2:28.25	QB
	3	2	align=left		align=left			DSQ

B Final

The B final was also held on October 18.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	align=left		align=left		2:20.18
10	5	align=left		align=left		2:20.54
11	1	align=left		align=left		2:23.51
12	3	align=left		align=left		2:26.13
13	2	align=left		align=left		2:27.10
14	6	align=left		align=left		2:27.43
15	8	align=left		align=left		2:27.76
16	7	align=left		align=left		2:29.15

A Final

The A final was also held on October 18.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[5]	Notes
	4	align=left		align=left		2:11.62	GR
	5	align=left		align=left		2:12.60
	6	align=left		align=left		2:13.58
4	2	align=left		align=left		2:16.87
5	1	align=left		align=left		2:17.84
6	3	align=left		align=left		2:18.13
7	7	align=left		align=left		2:19.54
8	8	align=left		align=left		2:20.31

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 200m Breaststroke Preliminaries. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
4. Web site: Finals – Day 4 . Best Swimming . 2011 . December 1, 2013 . December 4, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131204101745/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/guadalajara2011/finais4.pdf . dead .
5. Web site: Men's 200m Breaststroke Final A. https://web.archive.org/web/20111022035136/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/SW/SWR173A_SWM03203230000001ENG.htm. dead. October 22, 2011. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.