274 athletes from 36 countries were entered in Swimming and Open Water events at the Games (note: 13 countries were entered in Open Water, but all those countries were also entered in pool events as well):[16][17]
Benjamin Hockin gave Paraguay its first medal in the history of swimming at the Pan American Games, a bronze in the men's 200m freestyle.
Event schedule
The Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas (ASUA) originally proposed an 8-day format for the Games, mimicking the Olympic order format with prelims/semifinals/finals. However, this was changed in June 2010 at the bequest of the local organizers to a 7-day format, changing to a prelims/finals only (with A&B finals).[18] The shortening was to allow for the Open Water races, which were the day following the Swimming competition, to move from Sunday, October 23, 2011, to Saturday, October 22 in Puerto Vallarta. As part of the formatting change, the men's 1500 free and women's 800 free were also moved from the last two days of the schedule to earlier in the program to distance them from the open water swim.[19]
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100 fly (w) 400 IM (m) 400 IM (w) 400 free (m) 4 × 100 free relay (w)
100 back (w) 100 free (m) 200 free (w) 100 breast (m) 4 × 100 free relay (m)
400 free (w) 1500 free (m)-prelims 200 fly (m) 100 breast (w) 100 back (m)
