Swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

Year:	2023
Event:	Men's 200 metre butterfly
Venue:	Aquatic Centre
Date:	October 21, 2023
Competitors:	17
Nations:	10
Gold:	Mason Laur
Goldnoc:	USA
Bronze:	Jack Dahlgren
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2019
Next:	2027
Silver:	Leonardo de Deus
Silvernoc:	BRA

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2023 Pan American Games were held on October 21, 2023, at the Aquatic Center in Santiago, Chile.^[1]

Records

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

World record		1:50.34	Budapest, Hungary	June 21, 2022
Pan American Games record		1:55.01	Toronto, Canada	July 14, 2015

Results

KEY:

QA

Qualified for A final

QB

Qualified for B final

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on October 21.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mason Laur		1:57.58	QA
2	2	4	Jack Dahlgren		1:58.51	QA
3	1	4	Leonardo de Deus		1:59.09	QA
4	2	5	Héctor Ruvalcaba		1:59.44	QA
5	1	6	Kevin Zhang		2:00.22	QA
6	1	5	Luiz Altamir Melo		2:00.51	QA
7	1	3	Joaquín Piñero		2:00.53	QA
8	3	3	Erick Gordillo		2:00.60	QA
9	2	2	David Arias		2:01.14	QB
10	3	2	Roberto Bonilla		2:01.59	QB
11	3	5	Matheus Gonche		2:01.77	QB
12	3	6	Federico Ludueña		2:01.90	QB
13	2	3	Jorge Otaiza		2:03.31	QB
14	2	6	Ascanio Fernández		2:03.64	QB
15	2	7	Xavier Ventura		2:06.84	QB
16	1	2	Carlos Vasquez		2:06.86	QB
17	3	7	Gabriel Araya		2:08.55

Final B

The B final was held on October 21.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	David Arias		2:01.22
10	5	Matheus Gonche		2:01.28
11	6	Ascanio Fernández		2:02.16
12	3	Federico Ludueña		2:03.81
13	7	Carlos Vasquez		2:05.28
14	2	Xavier Ventura		2:07.64
		Gabriel Araya

Final A

The A final was held on October 21.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Mason Laur		1:56.44
	3	Leonardo de Deus		1:57.25
	5	Jack Dahlgren		1:57.53
4	6	Héctor Ruvalcaba		1:58.63
5	2	Kevin Zhang		1:59.30
6	8	Erick Gordillo		1:59.52
7	1	Joaquín Piñero		2:00.00
8	7	Luiz Altamir Melo		2:01.27

Notes and References

1. Web site: Get to know the venues and clusters of the Santiago 2023 Pan American and Parapan American games. Where all the competitions will take place in Santiago and regions.. 2023-10-25. santiago2023.org.
2. Web site: Swimming - Men's 200 metre butterfly - Heats results. November 4, 2023.
3. Web site: Swimming - Men's 200 metre butterfly - Final results. November 4, 2023.