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

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the XVII Pan American Games
Venue	CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House
Dates	July 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Leonardo de Deus   Brazil   Zack Chetrat   Canada   Alec Page   Canada
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Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women
Marathon
10 km		men		women

The men'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 Leonardo de Deus of Brazil.

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]

On July 16 it was reported that Mauricio Fiol oF Peru tested positive for stanozolol with the likely outcome of being stripped of his medal.^[3] On July 23 the PASO issued a press release indicating that Fiol was disqualified and has to forfeit his medal.^[4]

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	July 29, 2009
Pan American Games record	Kaio de Almeida (BRA)	1:55.45	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 21, 2007

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
14 July	A Final	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:55.01	GR

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (2:01.39) 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 (2:08.67) in the same qualifying period.^[2] All other competing athletes were entered as universality spots.^[2]

Results

Heats

The first round was held on July 14.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Mauricio Fiol	Peru	1:56.81	QA, NR
2	3	4	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:58.44	QA
3	1	4	Bobby Bollier	United States	1:58.61	QA
4	3	5	Alec Page	Canada	1:58.82	QA
5	3	3	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	1:59.08	QA
6	2	4	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:59.24	QA
7	1	5	Zack Chetrat	Canada	1:59.39	QA
8	2	5	Andrew Torres	Puerto Rico	1:59.83	QA
9	3	6	Long Yuan Gutierrez	Mexico	2:00.30	QB
10	1	6	Esnaider Reales	Colombia	2:01.19	QB
11	2	3	Andres Montoya	Colombia	2:01.73	QB
12	2	2	Lazaro Vergara	Cuba	2:02.43	QB
13	1	3	Ty Stewart	United States	2:02.68	QB
14	3	2	Jose Martinez	Mexico	2:03.15	QB
15	1	2	Maximiliano Abreu	Paraguay	2:05.61	QB
16	2	7	Matthew Mays	Virgin Islands	2:07.90	QB
17	3	7	Aldo Castillo	Bolivia	2:12.77

B Final

The B final was also held on July 14.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Long Yuan Gutierrez	Mexico	2:00.09
10	5	Esnaider Reales	Colombia	2:00.79
11	3	Andres Montoya	Colombia	2:00.93
12	6	Lazaro Vergara	Cuba	2:02.30
13	7	Jose Martinez	Mexico	2:02.39
14	2	Ty Stewart	United States	2:02.59
15	1	Maximiliano Abreu	Paraguay	2:06.91
16	8	Matthew Mays	Virgin Islands	2:09.74

A Final

The A final was also held on July 14.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:55.01	GR
02 !	1	Zack Chetrat	Canada	1:56.90	NR
03 !	6	Alec Page	Canada	1:58.01
4	7	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:58.51
5	8	Andrew Torres	Puerto Rico	1:59.37
6	2	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	1:59.59
7	3	Bobby Bollier	United States	1:59.89
DQ	4	Mauricio Fiol	Peru	1:55.15	NR

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