2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates:	August 24, 2014 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	19
Win Value:	2:08.57
Gold:	Yasuhiro Koseki
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Nicholas Fink
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Kazuki Kohinata
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2010
Next:	2018

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24 at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.^{[1] [2]} The last champion was Kosuke Kitajima of Japan.^[3]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.^[4]

Records

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

World record		2:07.01	Gifu, Japan	September 15, 2012
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:08.36	Irvine, United States	August 21, 2010

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 24, at 12:55.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			2:09.64	QA
2			2:10.01	QA
3			2:10.30	QA
4			2:10.43	QA
5			2:11.19	QA
6			2:11.98	QA
7	Yuta Oshikiri		2:12.14	QA
8			2:12.50	QA
9	Tales Cerdeira		2:12.93	QB
10			2:13.77	QB
11			2:14.20	QB
12	Cody Miller		2:14.43	QB
13			2:14.62	QB
14	Lyam Dias		2:16.34	QB
15	Mack Darragh		2:16.75	QB
16	Ronald Tsui		2:20.29	QB
17	Song Molin		2:20.46
18	Joshua Hall		2:20.48
19	Jared Pike		2:23.11

B Final

The B final was held on August 24, at 20:54.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9			2:11.45
10	Yuta Oshikiri		2:11.97
11	Cody Miller		2:13.40
12	Mack Darragh		2:17.23
13	Song Molin		2:19.64
14	Ronald Tsui		2:20.52
15	Joshua Hall		2:23.13
16	Jared Pike		2:24.72

A Final

The A final was held on August 24, at 20:54.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:08.57
			2:08.94
			2:10.14
4			2:11.05
5	Tales Cerdeira		2:11.49
6			2:13.75
7			2:13.89
8	Lyam Dias		2:16.19

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre breaststroke heats at 2014 Pan Pacific . Australia Swimming . August 24, 2014 . September 13, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre breaststroke finals at 2014 Pan Pacific . Australia Swimming . August 24, 2014 . September 13, 2014 . September 14, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140914023229/http://liveresults.swimming.org.au/sal/2014PP/140821F031.htm . dead .
3. Web site: Results of the 200-metre breaststroke finals at 2010 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 21, 2010 . September 13, 2014.
4. 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 .