2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^{[1] [2] [3]} The previous champion was Tom Malchow of US.^[4]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.^[5]

Records

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

World record		1:53.93	Barcelona, Spain	July 22, 2003
Pan Pacific Championships record		1:55.21	Yokohama, Japan	August 27, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 17, at 10:52.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Michael Phelps		1:55.50	QA
2	1	4	Takeshi Matsuda		1:56.22	QA
3	2	4	Ryuichi Shibata		1:56.26	QA
4	1	5	Travis Nederpelt		1:56.66	QA
5	3	3	Takashi Yamamoto		1:56.84	QA
6	2	6	Nick D'Arcy		1:57.82	QA
7	3	6	Kaio Almeida		1:57.83	QA
8	2	5	Davis Tarwater		1:58.15	QA
9	3	2	Jeremy Knowles		1:58.25	QB
10	2	3	Joshua Krogh		1:58.77	QB
11	1	3	Daniel Madwed		1:59.36	QB
12	3	5	Moss Burmester		1:59.73	QB
13	1	6	Stefan Hirniak		1:59.85	QB
14	1	1	Eric Shanteau		2:00.78	QB
15	2	2	Chung Yong		2:00.88	QB
16	1	2	Chen Yanlong		2:02.65	QB
17	3	8	Fernando Silva		2:02.71
18	2	1	Jonathan Blouin		2:02.81
19	3	1	Adam Sioui		2:03.02
20	1	7	Zheng Lei		2:03.25
21	2	7	Hsu Chi-Chien		2:03.33
-	3	7	Michael Klueh		DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 17, at 20:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Takashi Yamamoto		1:58.09
10	3	Daniel Madwed		1:58.31
11	5	Joshua Krogh		1:58.49
12	6			1:59.37
13	2	Stefan Hirniak		1:59.72
14	7	Chung Yong		2:01.88
15	1	Chen Yanlong		2:03.35
16	8	Fernando Silva		2:03.90

A Final

The A final was held on August 17, at 20:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:53.80	WR
	3	Ryuichi Shibata		1:55.82
	5	Takeshi Matsuda		1:56.20
4	6			1:58.20
5	1	Davis Tarwater		1:58.22
6	2	Nick D'Arcy		1:58.66
7	8	Jeremy Knowles		1:58.96
8	7	Kaio Almeida		1:59.34

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre butterfly heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . January 11, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre butterfly finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . January 11, 2014.
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107014441/http://www.swimvortex.com/2006-pan-pacific-swimming-championships-to-be-held-in-victoria-bc/ . 2014-01-07 . dead .
4. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
5. http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual