The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming

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 events at the 2011 Pan American Games

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took place on the 21st of October at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center

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. The defending

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 Pan American Games

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 champion was Thiago Pereira

Thiago Pereira

Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...

 of Brazil.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke

Backstroke

The backstroke, also sometimes called the back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It is also the only...

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Records

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

World record		1:51.92	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	July 31, 2009
Pan American Games record		1:58.42	Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th... , Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	July 19, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee

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 (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:04.1) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 4, 2011). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (2:07.8) in the same qualifying period.

Results

All times shown are in seconds/minutes.

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 October 21.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Omar Pinzon Omar Pinzón Omar Andrés Pinzón García is a Colombian international swimmer. He competed at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Pinzón attended college in the United States, where he swam for the University of Florida.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pinzón finished...		2:01.14	QA
2	1	4	Thiago Pereira Thiago Pereira Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...		2:03.53	QA
3	2	4	Rexford Tullius		2:03.82	QA
4	2	3	Ryan Murphy		2:03.89	QA
5	2	5	Leonardo de Deus		2:05.12	QA
6	1	3	Pedro Medel		2:05.20	QA
7	1	6	Luis Rojas		2:05.21	QA
8	1	2	Charles Hockin		2:05.28	QA
9	2	6	Ezequiel Trujillo		2:05.68
10	2	2	Anival Rodriguez		2:10.65
11	2	7	Mauricio Fiol		2:11.75

Final A

The final was held on October 21.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Thiago Pereira Thiago Pereira Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...		1:57.19	GR
	4	Omar Pinzón Omar Pinzón Omar Andrés Pinzón García is a Colombian international swimmer. He competed at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Pinzón attended college in the United States, where he swam for the University of Florida.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pinzón finished...		1:58.31
	3	Ryan Murphy		1:58.50
4	3	Rexford Tullius		1:59.50
5	2	Leonardo de Deus		2:03.28
6	1	Luis Rojas		2:06.07
7	8	Ezequiel Trujillo		2:06.18
8	7	Pedro Medel		2:13.77