Swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre individual medley explained

Year:	2023
Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Venue:	Aquatic Centre
Date:	October 25
Competitors:	25
Nations:	19
Win Value:	2:09.04
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Sydney Pickrem
Goldnoc:	CAN
Silver:	Mary-Sophie Harvey
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Kennedy Noble
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2019
Next:	2027

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2023 Pan American Games were held on October 25, 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		2:06.12	Kazan, Russia	August 3, 2015
Pan American Games record		2:10.51	Toronto, Canada	July 18, 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 highest eight scores advance to the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Sydney Pickrem		2:14.41	QA
2	4	3	Kennedy Noble		2:15.23	QA
3	2	5	Kristen Romano		2:15.98	QA
4	2	4	Abby Harter		2:16.81	QA
5	3	4	Mary-Sophie Harvey		2:16.94	QA
6	2	3	Stefanía Gómez		2:17.08	QA
7	4	6	McKenna DeBever		2:17.58	QA
8	3	5	Gabrielle Roncatto		2:18.28	QA
9	4	5	Bruna Leme		2:18.63	QB
10	4	2	María Mata		2:20.36	QB
11	3	3	Florencia Perotti		2:21.67	QB
12	2	2	Magdalena Portela		2:22.37	QB
13	3	2	Laura Melo		2:22.38	QB
14	2	6	Nicole Frank		2:22.76	QB
15	2	7	Jade Foelske		2:23.86	QB
16	2	7	Daine Pedré		2:24.26	QB
17	4	7	Alondra Ortiz		2:24.60
18	4	1	Lucero Mejía		2:25.76
19	1	5	Sierrah Broadbelt		2:29.56
20	1	4	María José Arrua		2:29.60
21	2	1	Sarah Szklaruk		2:30.33
22	4	8	Monstserrat Spielmann		2:30.33
23	3	1	Zaylie Thompson		2:30.53
24	1	3	Paola Cwu		2:33.54
	3	6	Melissa Rodríguez		DNS

Final B

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Bruna Leme		2:17.55
10	3	Magdalena Portela		2:19.38
11	6	Laura Melo		2:20.92
12	2	Nicole Frank		2:20.97
13	7	Jade Foelske		2:21.92
14	5	Florencia Perotti		2:23.19
15	8	Lucero Mejía		2:23.62
16	1	Daine Pedré		2:26.29

Final A

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sydney Pickrem		2:09.04	PR
	2	Mary-Sophie Harvey		2:11.92
	5	Kennedy Noble		2:14.19
4	3	Kristen Romano		2:15.18
5	7	Stefanía Gómez		2:16.92
6	6	Abby Harter		2:17.95
7	8	Gabrielle Roncatto		2:18.07
8	1	McKenna DeBever		2:18.28

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 - Women's 200 metre individual medley - Heats results. November 20, 2023.
3. Web site: Swimming - Women's 200 metre individual medley - Final results. November 17, 2023.