2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Men's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
Dates	August 18, 2010 (heats &; finals)
Competitors	20 from 9 nations
Winning time	1:54.11
Medalists
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The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.^[1]^[2]^[3] The last champion was Michael Phelps of US.^[4]^[5] This was the first time in 3 years (since the 2007 World Aquatics Championships) that Phelps failed to beat a championship record in a final of international competition.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.^[6]

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	July 29, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:53.80	Victoria, Canada	August 17, 2006

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

The first round was held on August 18, at 11:22.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Michael Phelps	United States	1:55.23	QA
2	3	4	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:55.47	QA
3	3	5	Nick D'Arcy	Australia	1:55.63	QA
4	3	7	Tyler Clary	United States	1:55.72	QA
5	1	6	Wu Peng	China	1:56.18	QA
6	2	4	Kaio Almeida	Brazil	1:56.74	QA
7	1	5	Ryusuke Sakata	Japan	1:56.85	QA
8	3	6	Kazuya Kaneda	Japan	1:57.14	QB 3rd Japanese
9	2	1	Stefan Hirniak	Canada	1:57.31	QA
10	1	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.39	QB
11	2	3	Chris Wright	Australia	1:57.52	QB
12	2	2	Mark Dylla	United States	1:57.83	QB
13	1	7	Yuya Horihata	Japan	1:58.01	QB
14	1	4	Sebastian Rousseau	South Africa	1:58.04	QB
15	2	7	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	1:58.11	QB
16	1	2	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:58.27
17	3	2	Jayden Hadler	Australia	1:58.87	QB
18	3	1	Zack Chetrat	Canada	2:00.66
19	1	1	Karl Wolk	Canada	2:00.86
20	3	3	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	2:01.31
-	2	6	Hsu Chi-Chieh	Chinese Taipei	DNS

The B final was held on August 18, at 19:50.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	5	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.86
10	1	Jayden Hadler	Australia	1:57.65
11	3	Chris Wright	Australia	1:57.96
12	4	Kazuya Kaneda	Japan	1:58.12
13	6	Mark Dylla	United States	1:58.23
14	2	Sebastian Rousseau	South Africa	1:58.52
15	7	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	1:58.62
16	8	Zack Chetrat	Canada	2:00.24

The A final was held on August 18, at 19:50.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.11
	3	Nick D'Arcy	Australia	1:54.73
	5	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:54.81
4	2	Wu Peng	China	1:55.36
5	7	Kaio Almeida	Brazil	1:55.66
6	1	Ryusuke Sakata	Japan	1:56.04
7	6	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.83
8	8	Stefan Hirniak	Canada	1:57.94