Swimming at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

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Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2011 Pan American Games
Roberto Gomez, Daniele Tirabassi
  Venezuela
«2007
»

The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the

Cesar Cielo
).

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. Each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool. The first swimmer had to touch the wall before the second could leave the starting block.[2]

Records

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

World record  United States (USA)
Michael Phelps (47.51)
Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02)
Cullen Jones (47.65)
Jason Lezak (46.06)
3:08.24 Beijing, China August 11, 2008
Pan American Games record  Brazil (BRA)
Fernando Silva (49.72)
Eduardo Deboni (49.15)
Nicolas Oliveira (48.85)
César Cielo (48.18)
3:15.90 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 20, 2007

Results

All times shown are in minutes.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best PR Pan American Games record

Heats

The first round was held on October 16.[3] As only eight teams had entered, the heats served as a ranking round with all eight teams advancing to the final.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time[4] Notes
1 5 William Copeland (49.53)
Christopher Brady (49.04)
Eugene Godsoe (49.90)
Conor Dwyer (49.10)
 United States 3:17.57 Q
2 4 Gabriel Mangabeira (50.96)
Henrique Rodrigues (49.75)
Thiago Pereira (52.02)
Nicholas Santos (50.91)
 Brazil 3:23.64 Q
3 3
Roberto Gomez (50.24)
Daniele Tirabassi (50.64)
Octavio Alesi
(54.08)
 Venezuela 3:27.20 Q
4 7 Gustavo Berretta (52.41)
Gerardo Bañuelos (52.04)
Alejandro Escudero (52.26)
Antonio Cisernos
 Mexico 3:29.34 Q
5 8
Martin Kutscher
(51.18)
 Uruguay 3:32.08 Q
6 2 Lyam Dias (53.19)
Francis Despond (52.86)
Ashton Baumann (52.93)
Rory Biskupski (53.13)
 Canada 3:32.11 Q
7 1
Sebastian Jahnsen (52.86)
Mauricio Fiol (51.94)
Jesus Monge (55.45)
Gerardo Huidobro
(58.92)
 Peru 3:39.17 Q
8 6
Benjamin Hockin
(1:04.37)
 Paraguay 3:44.98 Q

Final

The final was held on October 16.[5]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time[6] Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5
Cesar Cielo (47.07)
Nicolas Oliveira
(49.30)
 Brazil 3:14.65 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4
Douglas Robison
(48.55)
 United States 3:15.62
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Octavio Alesi (50.87)
Crox Acuña (49.88)
Cristian Quintero (49.86)
Albert Subirats (49.31)
 Venezuela 3:19.92
4 8
Benjamin Hockin
(49.60)
 Paraguay 3:26.19
5 6 Gerardo Bañuelos (52.57)
Alejandro Escudero (51.11)
Antonio Cisneros (51.67)
Gustavo Berretta (51.28)
 Mexico 3:26.63
6 2
Martin Kutscher
(50.68)
 Uruguay 3:28.27
7 7 Lyam Dias (52.37)
Rory Biskupski (51.36)
Francis Despond (52.78)
Ashton Baumann (52.91)
 Canada 3:29.42
8 1
Sebastian Jahnsen (54.67)
Mauricio Fiol (54.20)
Gerardo Huidobro
(1:02.78)
 Peru 3:47.55

References

  1. ^ Guadalajara 2011 sessions Archived 2011-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  3. ^ Heats – Day 2
  4. ^ "Men's 4x100m Freestyle Preliminaries". Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.[dead link]
  5. ^ Finals – Day 2
  6. ^ "Men's 4x100m Freestyle Final". Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.[dead link]