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

The Men's 200m freestyle event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 26, with the heats at 11:21 and the Final at 18:59.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Federico Grabich Argentina	Benjamin Hockin Paraguay	Nicolas Oliveira Brazil

Standing records prior to the 2010 South American Games
World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009
	Martin Kutscher (URU)	1:52.35	Buenos Aires, Argentina	18 November 2006
South American record	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	1:46.57	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	2	7	Benjamin Hockin (PAR)	1:52.98	Q
2	1	3	Federico Grabich (ARG)	1:53.40	Q
3	2	5	(VEN)	1:53.53	Q
4	1	2	Mateo de Angulo Velasco (COL)	1:53.67	Q
5	2	3	Crox Acuña (VEN)	1:54.07	Q
6	1	6	Martin Kutscher (URU)	1:54.13	Q
7	1	5	(COL)	1:54.16	Q
7	2	4	Nicolas Oliveira (BRA)	1:54.16	Q
9	1	4	Rodrigo Castro (BRA)	1:55.32
10	2	2	Juan Martin Pereyra (ARG)	1:56.05
11	1	7	(PER)	1:56.70
12	2	1	(PAR)	1:56.98
13	2	6	(PER)	1:57.04
14	1	1	Jemal Le Grand (ARU)	1:59.93
15	1	8	(BOL)	2:10.91
16	2	8	(BOL)	2:11.00

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
	5	Federico Grabich (ARG)	1:50.81	CR
	4	Benjamin Hockin (PAR)	1:51.48
	8	Nicolas Oliveira (BRA)	1:51.51
4	2	Crox Acuña (VEN)	1:51.78
5	1	(COL)	1:52.27
6	3	(VEN)	1:53.07
7	7	Martin Kutscher (URU)	1:53.73
8	6	Mateo de Angulo Velasco (COL)	1:54.59