1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Dates:	August 24, 1999 (heats &<br>semifinals) August 25, 1999 (final)
Competitors:	24
Nations:	8
Win Value:	2:13.63
Gold:	Joanne Malar
Goldnoc:	CAN
Silver:	Cristina Teuscher
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Elli Overton
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	1997
Next:	2002

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24–25 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre.^[1] The last champion was Kristine Quance of US.^[2]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.^[3]

Records

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

World record		2:09.72	Shanghai, China	October 17, 1997
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:12.54	Kobe, Japan	August 15, 1993

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 24.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			2:15.64	Q
2			2:15.73	Q
2			2:15.73	Q
4			2:16.15	Q
5			2:16.65	Q
6			2:17.00	Q
7			2:17.36	Q
8			2:17.84	Q
9			2:18.16	Q
10			2:18.48	Q
11			2:18.52	Q
12			2:18.76	Q
13			2:18.94	Q
14			2:19.06	Q
15			2:19.20	Q
16			2:20.40	Q
17			2:20.48
18			2:20.53
19			2:21.08
20			2:22.45
21			2:24.49
22			2:26.89
23			2:28.30
24			2:30.66

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on August 24.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			2:13.95	Q, CWR
2			2:14.79	Q
3			2:15.11	Q
4			2:15.33	Q
5			2:15.76	Q
6			2:16.24	Q
7			2:16.61	Q
8			2:16.68	Q
9			2:17.39
10			2:18.06
11			2:18.58
12			2:18.72
13			2:19.43
14			2:19.90
15			2:20.29
16			2:20.37

Final

The final was held on August 25.

Rank	Lane	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:13.63	CWR
			2:14.31
	Elli Overton		2:14.51
4	Tomoko Hagiwara		2:14.70
5	Marianne Limpert		2:15.77
6	Lori Munz		2:16.85
7	Madeleine Crippen		2:16.96
8	Yasuko Tajima		2:18.44

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 1999 Pan Pacific . Swim News . September 1999 . May 3, 2014.
2. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
3. Web site: Swimming Technical Manual . Guadalajara 2011 . 23 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf . 28 July 2011 .