2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre freestyle
Competition:	2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
Dates:	August 18, 2010 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	31
Nations:	11
Win Value:	1:45.30
Gold:	Ryan Lochte
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Park Tae-Hwan
Silvernoc:	KOR
Bronze:	Peter Vanderkaay
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2006
Next:	2014

The men's 200 metre freestyle 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 Klete Keller of US.^{[4] [5]}

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

Records

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

World record		1:42.00	Rome, Italy	July 28, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record		1:44.75	Yokohama, Japan	August 24, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 18, at 10:34.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5			1:46.10	QA
2	4	3	Peter Vanderkaay		1:46.66	QA
3	2	4	Kenrick Monk		1:47.38	QA
4	4	2	Thomas Fraser-Holmes		1:47.39	QA
5	3	3	Nicholas Ffrost		1:47.48	QA
6	4	6	Ricky Berens		1:47.55	QA
7	4	5	Jean Basson		1:47.80	QA
8	4	4	Park Tae-Hwan		1:47.85	QA
9	2	6	Yoshihiro Okumura		1:48.07	QB
10	4	1	Yuki Kobori		1:48.09	QB
11	3	4	Sho Uchida		1:48.40	QB
12	2	1	Charlie Houchin		1:48.44	QB
13	2	5	Shaune Fraser		1:48.53	QB
14	2	3	Ahmed Mathlouthi		1:49.21	QB
14	3	7	Colin Russell		1:49.21	QB
16	4	8	Blake Worsley		1:49.30	QB
17	1	6	Leith Brodie		1:49.39
18	3	8	Hassaan Khalik		1:49.40
19	3	2	Tommaso D'Orsogna		1:49.73
20	2	8	Kyle Richardson		1:50.21
21	3	1	André Schultz		1:50.22
22	3	6	Nicolas Oliveira		1:50.36
23	4	7	Shunsuke Kuzuhara		1:50.73
24	2	7	Rodrigo Castro		1:50.79
25	1	1	Nicholas Sinclair		1:50.94
26	2	2	Brett Fraser		1:50.98
27	1	4	Joonmo Bae		1:51.29
28	1	3	Leonardo Fim		1:51.60
29	1	7	Sangjin Jang		1:52.52
30	1	5	Sebastian Jahnsen		1:53.20
31	1	2	Miguel Molina		1:55.36

B Final

The B final was held on August 18, at 18:53.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Ricky Berens		1:47.45
10	4	Nicholas Ffrost		1:48.13
11	2	Colin Russell		1:48.49
12	3	Sho Uchida		1:48.67
13	6	Shaune Fraser		1:48.96
14	1	Blake Worsley		1:49.67
15	8	André Schultz		1:49.85
16	7	Ahmed Mathlouthi		1:50.17

A Final

The A final was held on August 18, at 18:53.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:45.30
	7	Park Tae-Hwan		1:46.27
	5			1:46.65
4	6	Thomas Fraser-Holmes		1:47.23
5	3	Kenrick Monk		1:47.37
6	2	Jean Basson		1:47.43
7	8	Yuki Kobori		1:48.42
8	1	Yoshihiro Okumura		1:49.28

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle heats at 2010 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 18, 2010 . December 13, 2013.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle finals at 2010 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 18, 2010 . December 13, 2013.
3. http://www.panpacificswimming.com/docs/2010_Pan_Pacs_handbook.pdf 2010 Pan Pacific handbook
4. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
5. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific - Full Results . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . December 17, 2013.
6. 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 .