Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Games:	2011
Venue:	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:	October 21 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	11
Nations:	8
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Thiago Pereira
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Omar Pinzón
Silvernoc:	COL
Bronze:	Ryan Murphy
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2007
Next:	2015

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on 21 October at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Thiago Pereira of Brazil.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.^[2]

Records

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

World record		1:51.92	Rome, Italy	July 31, 2009
Pan American Games record		1:58.42	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 19, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:04.1) 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 (2:07.8) in the same qualifying period.^[2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on October 21.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time^[3]
1	1	5	align=left	align=left	2:01.14	QA
2	1	4	align=left	align=left	2:03.53	QA
3	2	4	align=left	align=left	2:03.82	QA
4	2	3	align=left	align=left	2:03.89	QA
5	2	5	align=left	align=left	2:05.12	QA
6	1	3	align=left	align=left	2:05.20	QA
7	1	6	align=left	align=left	2:05.21	QA
8	1	2	align=left	align=left	2:05.28	QA
9	2	6	align=left	align=left	2:05.68
10	2	2	align=left	align=left	2:10.65
11	2	7	align=left	align=left	2:11.75

Final A

The final was held on October 21.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time^[4]
	5	align=left	align=left	1:57.19	GR, NR
	4	align=left	align=left	1:58.31
	3	align=left	align=left	1:58.50
4	3	align=left	align=left	1:59.50
5	2	align=left	align=left	2:03.28
6	1	align=left	align=left	2:06.07
7	8	align=left	align=left	2:06.18
8	7	align=left	align=left	2:13.77

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: Men's 200m Backstroke Preliminaries. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.
Web site: Men's 200m Backstroke Final A. https://web.archive.org/web/20120523035408/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/SW/SWR173A_SWM04204230000001ENG.htm. dead. May 23, 2012. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011.