Swimming at the 2010 South American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200m backstroke event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 26, with the heats at 10:37 and the Final at 18:23.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Leonardo de Deus  Brazil	Thiago Pereira  Brazil	Colombia

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 2010 South American Games
World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
	(ARG)	2:05.00	Buenos Aires, Argentina	15 November 2006
South American record	Omar Pinzón (COL)	1:56.40	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Leonardo de Deus (BRA)	2:05.95	Q
2	1	5	(COL)	2:06.81	Q
3	2	5	Luis Rojas Martinez (VEN)	2:06.94	Q
4	3	4	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	2:07.33	Q
5	3	5	(COL)	2:09.13	Q
6	3	6	(PAR)	2:10.06	Q
7	1	4	(ARG)	2:10.57	Q
8	3	3	(ECU)	2:12.65	Q
9	1	3	(PER)	2:17.15
10	1	6	(CHI)	2:18.36
11	2	3	(ECU)	2:18.88
12	2	6	(PER)	2:20.31
13	3	2	(PAR)	2:21.68
14	1	2	(SUR)	2:25.52
15	3	7	(BOL)	2:26.28
	2	2	(SUR)	DNS
	2	7	Albert Subirats (VEN)	DNS

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
	4	Leonardo de Deus (BRA)	2:02.00	CR
	6	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	2:02.13
	5	(COL)	2:06.36
4	2	(COL)	2:06.62
5	3	Luis Rojas Martinez (VEN)	2:07.73
6	7	(PAR)	2:09.64
7	1	(ARG)	2:10.95
8	8	(ECU)	2:11.46

References[]

• Heats
• Final