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

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on October 18 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Julia Smit of the United States,

WOMen's 200 metre individual medley at the XVI Pan American Games
Venue	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates	October 18 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	23 from 16 nations
Medalists
Julia Smit   United States   Alia Atkinson   Jamaica   Joanna Maranhão   Brazil
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This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.[2]

Records

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

World record	Ariana Kukors (USA)	2:06.15	Rome, Italy	July 27, 2009
Pan American Games record	Julia Smit (USA)	2:13.07	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 20, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:25.7) 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 (2:30.1) in the same qualifying period.[2]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on October 18.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time[3]	Notes
1	3	4	Julia Smit	United States	2:15.52	QA
2	3	5	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:18.04	QA
3	2	5	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:19.71	QA
4	1	5	Hanna Pierse	Canada	2:19.86	QA
5	3	3	Georgina Bardach	Argentina	2:20.57	QA
6	2	4	Whitney Myers	United States	2:20.62	QA
7	1	3	Daniela Victoria	Venezuela	2:22.04	QA
8	3	6	Arantxa Medina	Mexico	2:23.08	QA
9	1	4	Paige Schultz	Canada	2:23.31	QB
10	3	2	Julia Arino	Argentina	2:23.74	QB
11	1	6	Larissa Cieslak	Brazil	2:25.57	QB
12	3	7	Eliana Barrios	Venezuela	2:25.97	QB
13	2	3	Mckayla Lightbourn	Bahamas	2:26.66	QB
14	1	7	Ana Castellanos	Honduras	2:28.03	QB
15	2	6	Barbara Caraballo	Puerto Rico	2:28.36	QB
16	1	2	Zara Bailey	Jamaica	2:28.38	QB
17	3	1	Maria Alejandra Torres	Peru	2:30.53
18	2	7	Lisa Blackburn	Bermuda	2:31.87
19	3	8	Daniella van der Berg	Aruba	2:32.43
20	1	1	Daniela Reyes	Chile	2:33.37
21	2	1	Lara Butler	Cayman Islands	2:34.86
	2	2	Alana Dillette	Bahamas		DNS
	2	8	Laura Rodriguez	Dominican Republic		DNS

B Final

The B final was also held on October 18.[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	2	Mckayla Lightbourn	Bahamas	2:20.62
10	4	Paige Schultz	Canada	2:21.38
11	5	Julia Arino	Argentina	2:24.01
12	6	Eliana Barrios	Venezuela	2:25.01
13	3	Larissa Cieslak	Brazil	2:26.23
14	8	Zara Bailey	Jamaica	2:26.84
15	7	Ana Castellanos	Honduras	2:27.31
16	1	Barbara Caraballo	Puerto Rico	2:27.57

A Final

The A final was also held on October 18.[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time[5]	Notes
	4	Julia Smit	United States	2:13.73
	5	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:14.75
	3	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:15.08
4	7	Whitney Myers	United States	2:15.23
5	6	Hanna Pierse	Canada	2:19.12
6	8	Arantxa Medina	Mexico	2:21.74
7	2	Georgina Bardach	Argentina	2:22.65
8	1	Daniela Victoria	Venezuela	2:22.67

References

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