Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the 2015 Pan American Games
Women's 200 metre individual medley at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House
Dates	July 18 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	15 from 11 nations
Winning time	2:10.51
Medalists
	«2011 2019»

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 18 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Julia Smit of the United States.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, each swum in a different stroke. All participating swimmers would take part in 3 heats based on qualifying time. The 8 fastest swimmers would advance to the final.^[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

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
18 July	Heat 3	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:11.04	GR
18 July	A Final	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:10.51	GR

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:20.49) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2014 to May 1, 2015). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (2:28.92) in the same qualifying period.^[2] All other competing athletes were entered as universality spots.^[2]

Schedule

All times are Eastern Time Zone (UTC-4).

Date	Time	Round
July 18, 2015	10:16	Heats
July 18, 2015	19:18	Final B
July 18, 2015	19:25	Final A

Results

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 July 18.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:11.04	QA, GR
2	3	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:11.16	QA, NR
3	1	4	Meghan Small	United States	2:13.90	QA
4	2	4	Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson	Canada	2:14.02	QA
5	2	3	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:15.16	QA
6	2	5	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:15.32	QA
7	1	5	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	2:16.86	QA
8	3	3	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	2:17.67	QA
9	3	6	Florencia Perotti	Argentina	2:18.95	QB
10	1	3	Arantxa Medina	Mexico	2:19.26	QB
11	2	6	McKenna de Beever	Peru	2:21.65	QB
12	2	2	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	2:25.24	QB
13	3	7	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	2:25.87	QB
14	1	2	Lara Butler	Cayman Islands	2:26.50	QB
15	2	7	Lisa Blackburn	Bermuda	2:29.04	QB
	1	6	Esther Gonzalez	Mexico	DNS
	3	2	Barbara Caraballo	Puerto Rico	DNS

B Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Florencia Perotti	Argentina	2:17.65
10	3	McKenna de Beever	Peru	2:18.49
11	5	Arantxa Medina	Mexico	2:18.82
12	6	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	2:22.06
13	7	Lara Butler	Cayman Islands	2:24.64	NR
14	2	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	2:24.72
	1	Lisa Blackburn	Bermuda	DNS

A Final

The A final was also held on July 16.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:10.51	GR
	3	Meghan Small	United States	2:11.26
	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:11.29
4	7	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:12.39
5	6	Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson	Canada	2:14.06
6	1	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	2:15.45
7	8	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	2:17.02
8	2	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:18.02

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