Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2015 Pan American Games
Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House
Dates	July 17 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	18 from 13 nations
Winning time	1:06.26
Medalists
	«2011 2019»

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 17 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Ann Catherine Chandler of the United States.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all lengths in breaststroke. 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	Rūta Meilutytė (LTU)	1:04.35	Barcelona, Spain	July 29, 2013
Pan American Games record	Annamay Pierse (CAN)	1:07.78	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 17, 2007

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
17 July	Heat 2	Katie Meili	United States	1:05.64	GR

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (1:11.89) 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 (1:16.20) 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 17, 2015	11:11	Heats
July 17, 2015	20:31	Final B
July 17, 2015	20:36	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 17.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Katie Meili	United States	1:05.64	QA, GR
2	3	5	Rachel Nicol	Canada	1:07.10	QA
3	3	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:07.46	QA
4	1	4	Tera van Beilen	Canada	1:08.11	QA
5	1	5	Jhennifer Conceição	Brazil	1:08.75	QB
6	2	6	Annie Lazor	United States	1:08.94	QA
7	3	3	Beatriz Travalon	Brazil	1:08.99	QA
8	2	3	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	1:09.97	QA
9	2	5	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	1:10.02	QB
10	1	6	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	1:10.53	QB
11	3	6	Esther González	Mexico	1:10.83	QB
12	1	3	Arantxa Medina	Mexico	1:11.70	QB
13	3	7	Laura Morley	Bahamas	1:14.70	QB
14	2	7	Paula Tamashiro	Peru	1:15.46	QB
15	2	2	Evita Leter	Suriname	1:15.84	QB
16	3	2	Lisa Blackburn	Bermuda	1:16.14	QB
17	1	2	Izzy Shne Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1:20.25
18	1	7	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	1:21.52

B Final

The B final was also held on July 17.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	1:09.03
10	3	Esther González	Mexico	1:10.54
11	5	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	1:10.90
12	6	Arantxa Medina	Mexico	1:11.32
13	8	Lisa Blackburn	Bermuda	1:14.45
14	7	Paula Tamashiro	Peru	1:14.84
15	2	Laura Morley	Bahamas	1:15.20
16	1	Evita Leter	Suriname	1:15.38

A Final

The A final was also held on July 17.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Katie Meili	United States	1:06.26
	3	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:06.59
	5	Rachel Nicol	Canada	1:07.91
4	4	Tera van Beilen	Canada	1:08.22
5	6	Annie Lazor	United States	1:08.72
6	3	Beatriz Travalon	Brazil	1:09.23
7	3	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	1:09.83
	5	Jhennifer Conceição	Brazil	DSQ