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


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 record1:55.22Canet-en-Roussillon, FranceJune 14, 1995
Pan Pacific Championships record1:57.35Fukuoka, JapanAugust 10, 1997

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 24.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Tom Malchow1:56.07Q, CR
2Takashi Yamamoto1:58.95Q
3Bill Kirby1:59.05Q
4Greg Shaw1:59.20Q
5Uğur Taner1:59.25Q
6Xie Xufeng1:59.66Q
7Shamek Pietucha2:00.27Q
8Justin Norris2:00.35Q
9Hisayoshi Tanaka2:00.54Q
10Han Kyu-Chul2:01.00Q
11Adam Sioui2:01.41Q
12Philip Weiss2:01.47Q
13Douglas Browne2:02.77Q
14Trent Steed2:02.82Q
15Theo Verster2:02.84Q
16Grant McGregor2:03.01Q
17Craig Stevens2:04.15
18Tatsuya Kinugasa2:04.16
19Dean Kent2:05.66
20Nicholas Sheeran2:05.79
21Tseng Cheng-hua2:07.62

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on August 24.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Tom Malchow1:55.76Q, CR
2Uğur Taner1:57.68Q
3Takashi Yamamoto1:58.74Q
4Bill Kirby1:58.83Q
5Xie Xufeng1:59.11Q
6Hisayoshi Tanaka1:59.14Q
7Greg Shaw1:59.19Q
8Shamek Pietucha1:59.28Q
9Justin Norris1:59.44
10Philip Weiss2:00.51
11Adam Sioui2:00.84
12Theo Verster2:01.63
13Trent Steed2:02.83
14Douglas Browne2:03.70
15Tatsuya Kinugasa2:04.48
-Han Kyu-ChulDNS

Final

The final was held on August 25.
RankLaneNationalityTimeNotes
Tom Malchow1:55.41CR
Takashi Yamamoto1:57.33
Uğur Taner1:57.82
4Bill Kirby1:58.53
5Greg Shaw1:58.98
6Hisayoshi Tanaka1:59.43
7Xie Xufeng1:59.53
8Shamek Pietucha2:00.00