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

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2015 Pan American Games
Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House
Dates	July 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	17 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:07.68
Medalists
	«2011 2019»

The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 14 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Kim Vandenberg of the United States.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths in butterfly. The top eight swimmers from the heats would qualify for the A final (where the medals would be awarded), while the next best eight swimmers would qualify for the B final.^[2]

Records

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

World record	Zige Liu (CHN)	2:01.81	Jinan, China	October 21, 2009
Pan American Games record	Kathleen Hersey (USA)	2:07.64	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 21, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:17.99) 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 (2:26.27) 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 14, 2015	10:29	Heats
July 14, 2015	19:39	Final B
July 14, 2015	19:46	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 14.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Katherine Mills	United States	2:08.89	QA
2	3	4	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:10.33	QA
3	3	5	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	2:10.98	QA
4	2	6	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	2:12.31	QA, NR
5	3	3	Isabella Paez	Venezuela	2:12.63	QA
6	1	4	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:12.64	QA
7	1	6	Valerie Gruest	Guatemala	2:13.87	QA
8	2	3	Diana Luna	Mexico	2:14.21	QA
9	1	3	Jessica Camposano	Colombia	2:14.35	QB
10	3	6	Manuella Lyrio	Brazil	2:15.55	QB
11	1	5	Kylie Stewart	United States	2:16.22	QB
12	2	2	Maria Far	Panama	2:18.57	QB
12	3	2	Tereysa Lehnertz	Puerto Rico	2:18.57	QB
14	1	2	Estefania Urzua	Chile	2:19.23	QB
15	2	7	Lara Butler	Cayman Islands	2:22.81	QB
16	3	7	Trudian Patrick	Jamaica	2:24.26	QB
17	1	7	Daniella van den Berg	Aruba	2:26.04
	2	5	Noemie Thomas	Canada	DNS

B Final

The B final was also held on July 14.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	5	Manuella Lyrio	Brazil	2:13.37
10	4	Jessica Camposano	Colombia	2:14.22
11	3	Kylie Stewart	United States	2:14.64
12	2	Tereysa Lehnertz	Puerto Rico	2:18.05
13	7	Estefania Urzua	Chile	2:18.16
14	6	Maria Far	Panama	2:18.75
15	1	Lara Butler	Cayman Islands	2:21.52
16	8	Trudian Patrick	Jamaica	2:23.65

A Final

The A final was also held on July 14.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:07.68
	4	Katherine Mills	United States	2:09.31
	7	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:09.38	SA
4	3	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	2:09.51	NR
5	6	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	2:13.25
6	2	Isabella Paez	Venezuela	2:13.64
7	8	Diana Luna	Mexico	2:13.90
8	1	Valerie Gruest	Guatemala	2:14.03