Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Games:	2011
Venue:	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:	October 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	13
Nations:	9
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Kim Vandenberg
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Lyndsay de Paul
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Joanna Maranhão
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	2007
Next:	2015

The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on October 19 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Kathleen Hersey of the United States.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool all in the butterfly stroke.^[2]

Records

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

World record		2:01.81	Jinan, China	October 21, 2009
Pan American Games record		2:07.64	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 21, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:19.9) 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 (2:24.1) 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	Nationality	Time^[3]	Notes
1	1	4	align=left		align=left		2:12.04	QA
2	2	4	align=left		align=left		2:14.17	QA
3	2	5	align=left		align=left		2:14.44	QA
4	1	5	align=left		align=left		2:14.63	QA
5	2	3	align=left		align=left		2:15.87	QA
6	1	2	align=left		align=left		2:17.06	QA
7	1	6	align=left		align=left		2:18.36	QA
8	1	3	align=left		align=left		2:18.37	QA
9	2	2	align=left		align=left		2:19.07	QB
10	2	6	align=left		align=left		2:19.23	QB
11	1	7	align=left		align=left		2:30.26	QB
12	2	1	align=left		align=left		2:35.44	QB
	2	7	align=left		align=left			DNS

B Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	align=left		align=left		2:19.78
10	3	align=left		align=left		2:30.88
11	5	align=left		align=left		DNS

A Final

The A final was also held on October 19.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[5]	Notes
	4	align=left		align=left		2:10.54
	5	align=left		align=left		2:12.34
	3	align=left		align=left		2:12.43
4	6	align=left		align=left		2:13.00
5	8	align=left		align=left		2:16.10
6	2	align=left		align=left		2:16.13
7	7	align=left		align=left		2:18.19
8	1	align=left		align=left		2:20.16

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: Women's 200m Butterfly Preliminaries. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
4. Web site: Finals – Day 5 . Best Swimming . 2011 . December 7, 2013.
5. Web site: Women's 200m Butterfly Final A. https://web.archive.org/web/20111023004303/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/SW/SWR173A_SWW02202230000001ENG.htm. dead. October 23, 2011. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.