Swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2023 Pan American Games
Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2023 Pan American Games
Venue	Aquatic Center
Date	October 22, 2023
Competitors	26 from 22 nations
Medalists
	«2019 2027»

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2023 Pan American Games were held on October 22, 2023, at the Aquatic Center in Santiago, Chile.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Mollie O'Callaghan (AUS)	1:52.85	Fukuoka, Japan	July 26, 2023
Pan American Games record	Allison Schmitt (USA)	1:56.23	Toronto, Canada	July 15, 2015

KEY:	QA	Qualified for A final	QB	Qualified for B final	GR	Games record	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best	WD	Withdrew

The first round was held on October 22.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:59.31	QA
2	3	5	Camille Spink	United States	1:59.94	QA
3	4	5	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	2:01.23	QA
4	4	4	Stephanie Balduccini	Brazil	2:01.25	QA
5	2	4	Kayla Wilson	United States	2:01.34	QA
6	2	5	Emma O'Croinin	Canada	2:01.65	QA
7	4	3	Elisbet Gámez	Cuba	2:01.90	QA
8	4	6	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:02.24	QA
9	2	6	Inés Marín	Chile	2:03.03	QB
10	3	6	María Yegres	Venezuela	2:03.17	QB
11	2	2	Ana Carolina Vieira	Brazil	2:03.18	WD
12	2	3	María José Mata Cocco	Mexico	2:03.51	QB
13	4	2	Lucía Gauna	Argentina	2:04.02	QB
14	3	3	Karen Durango	Colombia	2:04.04	WD
15	3	7	Beatriz Padrón	Costa Rica	2:04.91	QB
16	4	7	Susana Hernández	Mexico	2:05.47	QB
17	4	1	Lucero Mejía	Independent Athletes Team	2:06.89
18	2	7	Julimar Ávila	Honduras	2:07.59
19	2	1	Elisabeth Timmer	Aruba	2:08.59
20	1	3	Timmy Collymore	Grenada	2:01.91
21	3	8	Ariana Valle	El Salvador	2:11.67
22	3	1	Harper Barrowman	Cayman Islands	2:11.95
23	1	5	Natalia Kuipers	Virgin Islands	2:13.29
24	1	4	Stefania Piccardo	Paraguay	2:14.31
—	4	8	Zaylie Thompson	Bahamas	DNS
—	3	2	Anicka Delgado	Ecuador	DNS

The B final was also held on October 22.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	5	María Yegres	Venezuela	2:02.03
10	3	María José Mata Cocco	Mexico	2:03.21
11	4	Inés Marín	Chile	2:03.33
12	6	Lucía Gauna	Argentina	2:05.24
13	2	Beatriz Padrón	Costa Rica	2:05.71
14	8	Julimar Ávila	Honduras	2:05.74
15	1	Lucero Mejía	Independent Athletes Team	2:05.86
16	7	Susana Hernández	Mexico	2:06.10

The A final was also held on October 22.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:58.08
	3	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	1:58.12
	5	Camille Spink	United States	1:58.61
4	6	Stephanie Balduccini	Brazil	1:58.67
5	2	Kayla Wilson	United States	1:58.91
6	7	Emma O'Croinin	Canada	2:00.79
7	8	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:01.19
8	1	Elisbet Gámez	Cuba	2:01.78