2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 26–27 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.[1][2] The last champion was Tom Malchow of US.[3]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Yokohama International Swimming Pool
Dates	August 26, 2002 (heats & semifinals) August 27, 2002 (final)
Competitors	22 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:55.21
Medalists
Tom Malchow    United States   Michael Phelps    United States   Takashi Yamamoto    Japan

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.[4]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:54.58	Fukuoka, Japan	July 24, 2001
Pan Pacific Championships record	Tom Malchow (USA)	1:55.41	Sydney, Australia	August 25, 1999

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

CR

Championships record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 26.[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Tom Malchow	United States	1:57.09	Q
2	1	4	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:57.58	Q
3	2	3	Yu Kondo	Japan	1:59.01	Q
4	3	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:59.15	Q
5	1	5	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:59.27	Q
6	1	6	Juan Pablo Valdivieso	Peru	2:00.53	Q
7	3	6	Kohei Kawamoto	Japan	2:00.61	Q
8	1	3	Eric Donnelly	United States	2:00.75	Q
8	3	7	Pedro Monteiro	Brazil	2:00.75	Q
10	3	3	Andrew Livingston	Puerto Rico	2:00.99	Q
11	3	5	Justin Norris	Australia	2:01.24	Q
12	2	5	Heath Ramsay	Australia	2:02.01	Q
13	2	6	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	2:02.16	Q
14	1	2	Chad Murray	Canada	2:02.53	Q
15	1	7	Trent Steed	Australia	2:02.94	Q
16	2	7	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:03.13	Q
17	2	2	Mark Kwok Kin Ming	Hong Kong	2:04.98
18	3	8	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	2:06.53
19	3	1	Szeto Shui Ki	Hong Kong	2:07.39
20	1	1	Kléber Ihara	Brazil	2:07.81
21	2	1	Ng Cheng Xun	Singapore	2:11.88
22	2	8	Dean Palacios	Northern Mariana Islands	2:18.63
-	3	2	Brian Johns	Canada	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on August 26.[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Michael Phelps	United States	1:56.15	Q
2	2	4	Tom Malchow	United States	1:56.19	Q
3	1	4	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:56.25	Q
4	2	3	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:56.71	Q
5	2	7	Justin Norris	Australia	1:58.77	Q
6	2	6	Kohei Kawamoto	Japan	1:59.66	Q
7	1	3	Juan Pablo Valdivieso	Peru	1:59.87	Q
8	2	5	Yu Kondo	Japan	2:00.06	Q
9	2	2	Pedro Monteiro	Brazil	2:00.07
10	1	6	Eric Donnelly	United States	2:00.27
11	1	2	Andrew Livingston	Puerto Rico	2:01.37
12	2	1	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	2:02.30
13	2	8	Trent Steed	Australia	2:02.54
14	1	7	Heath Ramsay	Australia	2:02.57
15	1	1	Chad Murray	Canada	2:02.82
16	1	8	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:03.18

Final

The final was held on August 27.[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Tom Malchow	United States	1:55.21	CR
	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:55.41
	3	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:55.57
4	6	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:56.64
5	2	Justin Norris	Australia	1:58.40
6	7	Juan Pablo Valdivieso	Peru	2:00.18
7	8	Andrew Livingston	Puerto Rico	2:00.41
8	1	Pedro Monteiro	Brazil	2:00.64

References

1. "Results of the 2002 Pan Pacific". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). June 4, 2006. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2014.
2. 2002 Pan Pacific held in Yokohama International Swimming Pool
3. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
4. Swimming technical manual Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine