Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games
The Swimming competition at the XVI Pan American Games was October 15–22, 2011 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The open water events swam in the waters off API Maritime Terminal in Puerto Vallarta.
Participating countries
274 athletes from 36 countries were entered in Swimming and Open Water events at the Games :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 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. 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.| Sat. 10/15 | Sun. 10/16 | Mon. 10/17 | Tue. 10/18 | Wed. 10/19 | Thu. 10/20 | Fri. 10/21 | Sat. 10/22 |
| 100 fly 400 IM 400 IM 400 free 4x100 free relay | 100 back 100 free 200 free 100 breast 4x100 free relay | 400 free 1500 free -prelims 200 fly 100 breast 100 back | 200 free 200 IM 800 free -prelims 1500 free 200 breast 4x200 free relay | 100 free 200 IM 800 free 200 fly 4x200 free relay | 50 free 200 breast 100 fly 200 back | 50 free 200 back 4x100 medley relay 4x100 medley relay | 10 km open water 10 km open water |
Results
Men
Women's events
Medal standings
Qualifying
On May 26, 2010 the qualification standards for the Swimming portion of the 2011 Pan Am Games were set.- a B standard which qualifies up to one swimmer per event, or
- an A standard which qualifies up to two swimmers per event, where both swimmers must meet this faster standard.