Swimming at the 2010 South American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200m backstroke event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 26, with the heats at 10:37 and the Final at 18:23.

Main article: Swimming at the 2010 South American Games

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Leonardo de Deus  Brazil	Thiago Pereira  Brazil	Juan David Nieto  Colombia

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 South American Games
World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Competition Record	Joaquin Belza (ARG)	2:05.00	Buenos Aires, Argentina	15 November 2006
South American record	Omar Pinzón (COL)	1:56.40	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Leonardo de Deus (BRA)	2:05.95	Q
2	1	5	Juan David Nieto (COL)	2:06.81	Q
3	2	5	Luis Rojas Martinez (VEN)	2:06.94	Q
4	3	4	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	2:07.33	Q
5	3	5	Juan David Perez (COL)	2:09.13	Q
6	3	6	Charles Daniel Brusquetti (PAR)	2:10.06	Q
7	1	4	Gustavo Adolfo Taricco (ARG)	2:10.57	Q
8	3	3	Carlos Enrique Carvajal (ECU)	2:12.65	Q
9	1	3	Mauricio Rafael Villanueva (PER)	2:17.15
10	1	6	Alan Abarca Cortez (CHI)	2:18.36
11	2	3	Ivan Marcelo Zavala (ECU)	2:18.88
12	2	6	Victor Mauricio Garcia (PER)	2:20.31
13	3	2	Ricardo Javier Ramirez (PAR)	2:21.68
14	1	2	Marcelino Richaards (SUR)	2:25.52
15	3	7	Armando Esteban Claure (BOL)	2:26.28
	2	2	Jair Boerenveen (SUR)	DNS
	2	7	Albert Subirats (VEN)	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
	4	Leonardo de Deus (BRA)	2:02.00	CR
	6	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	2:02.13
	5	Juan David Nieto (COL)	2:06.36
4	2	Juan David Perez (COL)	2:06.62
5	3	Luis Rojas Martinez (VEN)	2:07.73
6	7	Charles Daniel Brusquetti (PAR)	2:09.64
7	1	Gustavo Adolfo Taricco (ARG)	2:10.95
8	8	Carlos Enrique Carvajal (ECU)	2:11.46

References

• Heats
• Final