1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Venue

Dates

August 24, 1999 (heats &
semifinals)
August 25, 1999 (final)

Competitors

21 from 9 nations

Winning time

1:55.41

Medalists

← 1997 2002 →

1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
v t e

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24–25 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre. The last champion was Uğur Taner of US.

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

Records

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

World record	Denis Pankratov (RUS)	1:55.22	Canet-en-Roussillon, France	June 14, 1995
Pan Pacific Championships record	Uğur Taner (USA)	1:57.35	Fukuoka, Japan	August 10, 1997

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

Fastest non-qualifiers

Qualified

Championships record

National record

Personal best

Seasonal best

The first round was held on August 24.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tom Malchow	United States	1:56.07	Q, CR
2	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:58.95	Q
3	Bill Kirby	Australia	1:59.05	Q
4	Greg Shaw	Australia	1:59.20	Q
5	Uğur Taner	United States	1:59.25	Q
6	Xie Xufeng	China	1:59.66	Q
7	Shamek Pietucha	Canada	2:00.27	Q
8	Justin Norris	Australia	2:00.35	Q
9	Hisayoshi Tanaka	Japan	2:00.54	Q
10	Han Kyu-Chul	South Korea	2:01.00	Q
11	Adam Sioui	Canada	2:01.41	Q
12	Philip Weiss	Canada	2:01.47	Q
13	Douglas Browne	Canada	2:02.77	Q
14	Trent Steed	Australia	2:02.82	Q
15	Theo Verster	South Africa	2:02.84	Q
16	Grant McGregor	Australia	2:03.01	Q
17	Craig Stevens	Australia	2:04.15
18	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:04.16
19	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:05.66
20	Nicholas Sheeran	New Zealand	2:05.79
21	Tseng Cheng-hua	Chinese Taipei	2:07.62

The semifinals were held on August 24.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tom Malchow	United States	1:55.76	Q, CR
2	Uğur Taner	United States	1:57.68	Q
3	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:58.74	Q
4	Bill Kirby	Australia	1:58.83	Q
5	Xie Xufeng	China	1:59.11	Q
6	Hisayoshi Tanaka	Japan	1:59.14	Q
7	Greg Shaw	Australia	1:59.19	Q
8	Shamek Pietucha	Canada	1:59.28	Q
9	Justin Norris	Australia	1:59.44
10	Philip Weiss	Canada	2:00.51
11	Adam Sioui	Canada	2:00.84
12	Theo Verster	South Africa	2:01.63
13	Trent Steed	Australia	2:02.83
14	Douglas Browne	Canada	2:03.70
15	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:04.48
-	Han Kyu-Chul	South Korea	DNS

The final was held on August 25.

Rank	Lane	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tom Malchow	United States	1:55.41	CR
	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:57.33
	Uğur Taner	United States	1:57.82
4	Bill Kirby	Australia	1:58.53
5	Greg Shaw	Australia	1:58.98
6	Hisayoshi Tanaka	Japan	1:59.43
7	Xie Xufeng	China	1:59.53
8	Shamek Pietucha	Canada	2:00.00