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

The Men's 200m breaststroke event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 29, with the heats at 10:09 and the Final at 18:00.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thiago Pereira Brazil	Colombia	Argentina

Standing records prior to the 2010 South American Games
World record	Christian Sprenger (AUS)	2:07.31	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009
	(BRA)	2:17.94	Buenos Aires, Argentina	18 November 2006
South American record	Henrique Barbosa (BRA)	2:08.44	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	6 May 2009

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	2:22.55	Q
2	1	4	(COL)	2:23.01	Q
3	2	5	(ARG)	2:23.46	Q
4	2	3	Leopoldo Andara (VEN)	2:24.16	Q
5	1	6	(ECU)	2:24.91	Q
6	2	6	(COL)	2:30.52	Q
7	1	3	(ARG)	2:31.76	Q
8	2	1	(PAR)	2:35.92	Q
9	1	2	(PER)	2:36.44
10	2	2	(PER)	2:36.83
11	1	7	(ECU)	2:39.23
	1	5	Felipe Silva (BRA)	DNS
	2	7	Diguan Pigot (SUR)	DSQ

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
	4	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	2:16.89	CR
	5	(COL)	2:17.71
	3	(ARG)	2:20.84
4	6	Leopoldo Andara (VEN)	2:21.43
5	2	(ECU)	2:24.03
6	7	(COL)	2:29.31
7	1	(ARG)	2:34.28
8	8	(PAR)	2:38.34