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

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. 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.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows: World record1:04.35Barcelona, SpainJuly 29, 2013Pan American Games record1:07.78Rio de Janeiro, BrazilJuly 17, 2007 The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 17 July Heat 2 Katie Meili 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. All other competing athletes were entered as universality spots.

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:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on July 17.Women's 100m Breaststroke Preliminaries

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

B Final The B final was also held on July 17.Women's 100m Breaststroke - B Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 4 Macarena Ceballos 1:09.03 10 3 Esther González 1:10.54 11 5 Mercedes Toledo 1:10.90 12 6 Arantxa Medina 1:11.32 13 8 Lisa Blackburn 1:14.45 14 7 Paula Tamashiro 1:14.84 15 2 Laura Morley 1:15.20 16 1 Evita Leter 1:15.38

A Final The A final was also held on July 17.Women's 100m Breaststroke - A Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Katie Meili 1:06.26 3 Alia Atkinson 1:06.59 5 Rachel Nicol 1:07.91 4 4 Tera van Beilen 1:08.22 5 6 Annie Lazor 1:08.72 6 3 Beatriz Travalon 1:09.23 7 3 Julia Sebastian 1:09.83 5 Jhennifer Conceição

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