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
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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