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

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Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2011 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue Scotiabank Aquatics Center
DatesOctober 20 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors15 from 10 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
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The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on October 20 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. [1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Caitlin Leverenz of the United States.

Contents

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool all in breaststroke. [2]

Records

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

World record Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Annamay Pierse  (CAN)2:20.12 Rome, Italy July 30, 2009
Pan American Games record Flag of the United States.svg  Caitlin Leverenz  (USA)2:25.62 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 22, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:37.6) 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 (2:41.3) in the same qualifying period. [2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on October 20.

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTime [3] Notes
125 Ashley McGregor Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:29.32QA
224 Haley Spencer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:29.51QA
323 Hanna Pierse Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:31.73QA
415 Alia Atkinson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 2:32.33QA
514 Michelle McKeehan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:32.68QA
622 Julia Sebastian Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:35.12QA
727 Melissa Rodríguez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:35.43QA
816 Mijal Asis Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:35.85QA
913 Arantxa Medina Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:39.15QB
1012 Michele Schmidt Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:39.63QB
1126 Thamy Ventorini Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:41.52QB
1211 Daniela Victoria Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 2:42.02QB
1328 Lisa Blackburn Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda 2:45.36QB
1421 Patricia Casellas Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:48.83QB
17 Mckayla Lightbourn Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas DNS

B Final

The B final was also held on October 20. [4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
96 Daniela Victoria Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 2:38.52
104 Arantxa Medina Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:39.17
115 Michele Schmidt Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:39.22
123 Thamy Ventorini Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:41.86
132 Lisa Blackburn Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda 2:44.86
147 Patricia Casellas Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:47.15

A Final

The A final was also held on October 20. [4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTime [5] Notes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Ashley McGregor Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:28.04
Silver medal icon.svg5 Haley Spencer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:29.30
Bronze medal icon.svg2 Michelle McKeehan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:30.51
46 Alia Atkinson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 2:30.96
53 Hanna Pierse Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:31.06
67 Julia Sebastian Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:32.74
71 Melissa Rodríguez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:35.15
88 Mijal Asis Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:35.21

References

  1. "Sessions" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  3. "Women's 200m Breaststroke Preliminaries". Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.[ dead link ]
  4. 1 2 "Finals – Day 6" (PDF). Best Swimming. 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  5. "Women's 200m Breaststroke Final A". Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original on October 23, 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.