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

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on October 17 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center in Mexico.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Kaio de Almeida of Brazil.

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the XVI Pan American Games
Venue	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates	October 17 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Leonardo de Deus   Brazil   Daniel Madwed   United States   Kaio de Almeida   Brazil
«2007 2015»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all being in butterfly stroke.[2]

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	July 29, 2009
Pan American Games record	Kaio de Almeida (BRA)	1:55.45	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 21, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:02.0) 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 (2:05.7) in the same qualifying period.[2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on October 17.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Daniel Madwed	United States	1:59.99	QA
2	2	4	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	2:00.32	QA
3	1	4	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	2:00.99	QA
4	1	5	Omar Pinzon	Colombia	2:01.02	QA
5	1	3	Israel Duran	Mexico	2:01.27	QA
6	2	6	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	2:01.33	QA
7	2	3	Robert Margalis, Jr.	United States	2:01.62	QA
8	1	7	Mauricio Fiol	Peru	2:01.91	QA
9	2	7	Ramiro Ramirez	Mexico	2:02.45	QB
10	2	2	Alexis Marquez	Venezuela	2:02.58	QB
11	1	6	Diego Castillo	Panama	2:03.44	QB
12	1	2	Andres Gonzalez	Argentina	2:05.29	QB
13	1	1	Lazaro Vergara	Cuba	2:06.24	QB
14	2	1	Joel Romeu	Uruguay	2:07.87	QB
15	1	8	Victor Lopez-Cantera	Nicaragua	2:10.22	QB
	2	8	Shaune Fraser	Cayman Islands	DNS

B Final

The B final was also held on October 17.[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Ramiro Ramirez	Mexico	2:02.93
10	5	Alexis Marquez	Venezuela	2:02.99
11	3	Diego Castillo	Panama	2:03.32
12	6	Andres Gonzalez	Argentina	2:04.99
13	7	Joel Romeu	Uruguay	2:06.30
14	2	Lazaro Vergara	Cuba	2:06.95
15	1	Victor Lopez-Cantera	Nicaragua	2:09.19

A Final

The A final was also held on October 17.[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.92
	4	Daniel Madwed	United States	1:58.52
	5	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:58.78
4	6	Omar Pinzon	Colombia	2:01.36
5	7	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	2:01.62
6	1	Robert Margalis, Jr.	United States	2:01.95
7	2	Israel Duran	Mexico	2:02.45
8	8	Mauricio Fiol	Peru	2:03.36

References

1. Guadalajara 2011 sessions Archived 2011-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
2. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Finals – Day 3" (PDF). Best Swimming. 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2013.