title: Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 200 metre freestyle
text: # Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 200 metre freestyle
  
  The women's 200m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Thursday, July 20, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.
  
  ## Records
  
  | World Record | Franziska van Almsick (GER) | 1:56.64 | 2002-08-03 | Berlin, Germany |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | CAC Record | Silvia Poll (CRC) | 2:02.80 | 1986-06-26 | Santo Domingo |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Final
  
  | Place | Swimmer | Country | Time | Note |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Claudia Poll | Costa Rica | 2:00.19 | GR |
  | 2 | Erin Volcán | Venezuela | 2:03.92 | |
  | 3 | Pamela Benítez | El Salvador | 2:04.11 | |
  | 4 | Susana Escobar | Mexico | 2:04.76 | |
  | 5 | Heysi Villarreal | Cuba | 2:05.38 | |
  | 6 | Maríana Álvarado | Mexico | 2:05.41 | |
  | 7 | Heather Roffey | Cayman Islands | 2:09.55 | |
  | 8 | Golda Marcus | El Salvador | 2:12.87 | |
  
  ### Preliminaries
  
  | Rank | Swimmer | Country | Time | Note |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Claudia Poll | Costa Rica | 2:02.82 | Q |
  | 2 | Pamela Benítez | El Salvador | 2:06.59 | Q |
  | 3 | Erin Volcán | Venezuela | 2:06.71 | Q |
  | 4 | Heysi Villarreal | Cuba | 2:06.86 | Q |
  | 5 | Susana Escobar | Mexico | 2:07.48 | Q |
  | 6 | Golda Marcus | El Salvador | 2:07.86 | Q |
  | 7 | Maríana Álvarado | Mexico | 2:08.33 | Q |
  | 8 | Heather Roffey | Cayman Islands | 2:09.36 | Q |
  | 9 | Jennifer Marquez | Venezuela | 2:09.66 | |
  | 10 | Alana Dillette | Bahamas | 2:10.38 | |
  | 11 | María Álvarez | Colombia | 2:10.66 | |
  | 12 | Laura Gómez | Colombia | 2:11.09 | |
  | 13 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 2:12.45 | |
  | 14 | Valerie Ayla Marie Eman | Aruba | 2:15.88 | |
  | 15 | Sade Daal | Suriname | 2:20.01 | |
  