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

Event:	WOMen's 200 metre individual medley
Games:	2011
Venue:	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:	October 18 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	23
Nations:	16
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Julia Smit
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Alia Atkinson
Silvernoc:	JAM
Bronze:	Joanna Maranhão
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	2007
Next:	2015

The women's 200 metre individual medley 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 Julia Smit of the United States,

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.^[2]

Records

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

World record		2:06.15	Rome, Italy	July 27, 2009
Pan American Games record		2:13.07	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 20, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:25.7) 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 (2:30.1) in the same qualifying period.^[2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

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Fastest non-qualifiers

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Q

Qualified

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GR

Games record

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NR

National record

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PB

Personal best

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SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on October 18.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[3]	Notes
1	3	4	align=left		align=left		2:15.52	QA
2	3	5	align=left		align=left		2:18.04	QA
3	2	5	align=left		align=left		2:19.71	QA
4	1	5	align=left		align=left		2:19.86	QA
5	3	3	align=left		align=left		2:20.57	QA
6	2	4	align=left		align=left		2:20.62	QA
7	1	3	align=left		align=left		2:22.04	QA
8	3	6	align=left		align=left		2:23.08	QA
9	1	4	align=left		align=left		2:23.31	QB
10	3	2	align=left		align=left		2:23.74	QB
11	1	6	align=left		align=left		2:25.57	QB
12	3	7	align=left		align=left		2:25.97	QB
13	2	3	align=left		align=left		2:26.66	QB
14	1	7	align=left		align=left		2:28.03	QB
15	2	6	align=left		align=left		2:28.36	QB
16	1	2	align=left		align=left		2:28.38	QB
17	3	1	align=left		align=left		2:30.53
18	2	7	align=left		align=left		2:31.87
19	3	8	align=left		align=left		2:32.43
20	1	1	align=left		align=left		2:33.37
21	2	1	align=left		align=left		2:34.86
	2	2	align=left		align=left			DNS
	2	8	align=left		align=left			DNS

B Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	2	align=left		align=left		2:20.62
10	4	align=left		align=left		2:21.38
11	5	align=left		align=left		2:24.01
12	6	align=left		align=left		2:25.01
13	3	align=left		align=left		2:26.23
14	8	align=left		align=left		2:26.84
15	7	align=left		align=left		2:27.31
16	1	align=left		align=left		2:27.57

A Final

The A final was also held on October 18.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time^[5]	Notes
	4	align=left		align=left		2:13.73
	5	align=left		align=left		2:14.75
	3	align=left		align=left		2:15.08
4	7	align=left		align=left		2:15.23
5	6	align=left		align=left		2:19.12
6	8	align=left		align=left		2:21.74
7	2	align=left		align=left		2:22.65
8	1	align=left		align=left		2:22.67

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 Individual Medley Preliminaries. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
4. Web site: Finals – Day 4 . Best Swimming . 2011 . December 7, 2013.
5. Web site: Women's 200m Individual Medley Final A. https://web.archive.org/web/20111022035658/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/SW/SWR173A_SWW05205230000001ENG.htm. dead. October 22, 2011. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.