Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre freestyle
Games:	2011
Venue:	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:	October 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	20
Nations:	16
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	César Cielo
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Bruno Fratus
Silvernoc:	BRA
Bronze:	Hanser García
Bronzenoc:	CUB
Prev:	2007
Next:	2015

The men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on October 20 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was César Cielo Filho of Brazil.

This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle.^[2]

Records

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

World record		20.91	São Paulo, Brazil	December 18, 2009
Pan American Games record		21.84	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 22, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (23.1) 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 (23.8) 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]
1	3	4	align=left		align=left	22.17	QA
2	2	5	align=left		align=left	22.37	QA
3	2	4	align=left		align=left	22.44	QA
4	1	5	align=left		align=left	22.73	QA
5	1	4	align=left		align=left	22.75	QA
6	3	5	align=left		align=left	22.77	QA
7	3	6	align=left		align=left	22.87	QA
8	3	3	align=left		align=left	22.96	QA
8	1	6	align=left		align=left	22.96	QB
10	1	3	align=left		align=left	23.02	QB
11	2	6	align=left		align=left	23.11	QB
12	2	3	align=left		align=left	23.36	QB
13	1	7	align=left		align=left	23.48	QB
14	2	2	align=left		align=left	23.60	QB
15	3	2	align=left		align=left	23.64	QB
16	1	2	align=left		align=left	23.71	QB
17	2	7	align=left		align=left	23.72
18	3	7	align=left		align=left	23.74
19	3	1	align=left	Tolga Akcayli	align=left	25.65
	2	1	align=left		align=left		DNS

Swim-off

A swim-off was contested between Roy-Allan Burch and Gabriel Melconián to determine who would advance as the eighth seed to the A Final.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[4]	Notes
1	5	align=left		align=left		22.76	QA
2	4	align=left		align=left		23.07	QB

B Final

The B final was also held on October 20.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
9	6	align=left	align=left	23.05
10	5	align=left	align=left	23.07
11	4	align=left	align=left	23.10
12	3	align=left	align=left	23.12
13	1	align=left	align=left	23.58
14	2	align=left	align=left	23.61
15	7	align=left	align=left	23.65
16	8	align=left	align=left	23.67

A Final

The A final was also held on October 20.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time^[6]
	4	align=left	align=left	21.58	PR
	3	align=left	align=left	22.05
	5	align=left	align=left	22.15
4	2	align=left	align=left	22.30
5	6	align=left	align=left	22.60
6	7	align=left	align=left	22.67
7	8	align=left	align=left	22.82
8	1	align=left	align=left	22.97

Notes and References

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.
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.
Web site: Men's 50 Freestyle Preliminary. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
Web site: Men's 50 metre Freestyle Preliminaries Swim-off 1. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
Web site: Finals – Day 6 . Best Swimming . 2011 . December 1, 2013.
Web site: Men's 50m Freestyle Final A. https://web.archive.org/web/20111023190238/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/SW/SWR173A_SWM01001030000001ENG.htm. dead. October 23, 2011. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.