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.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history

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

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record1:55.22Canet-en-Roussillon, FranceJune 14, 1995Pan 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.

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

Semifinals The semifinals were held on August 24.

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

Final The final was held on August 25. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Tom Malchow 1:55.41 CR Takashi Yamamoto 1:57.33 Uğur Taner 1:57.82 4 Bill Kirby 1:58.53 5 Greg Shaw 1:58.98 6 Hisayoshi Tanaka 1:59.43 7 Xie Xufeng 1:59.53 8 Shamek Pietucha 2:00.00

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