Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Games:	2011
Venue:	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:	October 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	21
Nations:	16
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Amanda Kendall
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Erika Erndl
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Arlene Semeco
Bronzenoc:	VEN
Prev:	2007
Next:	2015

See main article: Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games. The Women's 100 metre freestyle swimming event at the 2011 Pan American Games was held on October 19, 2011, in Guadalajara, Mexico.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Arlene Semeco of Venezuela.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both in freestyle.^[2]

Records

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

World Record		52.07	Rome, Italy	July 31, 2009
Games Record		54.46	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	August 11, 2003

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (57.6) 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 (59.3) in the same qualifying period.^[2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on October 19.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time^[3]
1	1	4	align=left	align=left	54.82	QA
2	2	4	align=left	align=left	55.73	QA
3	3	5	align=left	align=left	55.98	QA
4	2	5	align=left	align=left	56.15	QA
5	3	4	align=left	align=left	56.47	QA
6	2	6	align=left	align=left	56.66	QA
7	3	3	align=left	align=left	56.69	QA
8	1	3	align=left	align=left	56.83	QA
9	1	5	align=left	align=left	57.14	QB
10	2	3	align=left	align=left	57.43	QB
11	1	2	align=left	align=left	57.97	QB
12	1	6	align=left	align=left	58.14	QB
13	2	2	align=left	align=left	58.81	QB
14	3	6	align=left	align=left	58.95	QB
15	1	7	align=left	align=left	59.59	QB
16	3	7	align=left	align=left	1:00.11	QB
17	3	1	align=left	align=left	1:00.15
18	2	1	align=left	align=left	1:01.13
19	1	1	align=left	align=left	1:02.28
	3	2	align=left	align=left		DNS
	2	7	align=left	align=left		DNS

B Final

The B final was also held on October 19.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
9	5	align=left	align=left	57.58
10	4	align=left	align=left	57.70
11	3	align=left	align=left	58.03
12	6	align=left	align=left	58.84
13	2	align=left	align=left	59.03
14	7	align=left	align=left	59.16
15	1	align=left	align=left	59.96
16	8	align=left	align=left	1:00.51

A Final

The A final was also held on October 19.^[5]

Place	Lane	Swimmer	Time
	4	align=left	align=left	54.75
	3	align=left	align=left	55.04
	1	align=left	align=left	55.43
4	5	align=left	align=left	55.55
5	6	align=left	align=left	55.68
6	8	align=left	align=left	55.74	NR
7	2	align=left	align=left	56.36
8	7	align=left	align=left	56.53

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: Women's 100m Freestyle Preliminaries. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
Web site: Finals – Day 5 . Best Swimming . 2011 . December 1, 2013.
Web site: Women's 100m Freestyle Final A. https://web.archive.org/web/20111023005446/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/SW/SWR173A_SWW01101130000001ENG.htm. dead. October 23, 2011. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.