2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Yokohama International Swimming Pool
Dates	August 26, 2002 (heats & semifinals) August 27, 2002 (final)
Competitors	19 from 8 nations
Winning time	2:11.80
Medalists
Brendan Hansen   United States   Jim Piper   Australia   Daisuke Kimura   Japan

2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Yokohama, Japan
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 26–27 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool. The last champion was Simon Cowley of Australia.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.

Records

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

World record	Mike Barrowman (USA)	2:10.16	Barcelona, Spain	July 29, 1992
Pan Pacific Championships record	Mike Barrowman (USA)	2:11.96	Edmonton, Canada	August 25, 1991

Results

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

Heats

The first round was held on August 26.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	2:12.92	Q
2	3	3	Thomas Wilkens	United States	2:14.48	Q
3	1	4	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:15.68	Q
4	2	3	Mike Brown	Canada	2:15.95	Q
5	2	6	Marcelo Tomazini	Brazil	2:16.53	Q
6	2	4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:16.82	Q
7	3	6	Mark Gangloff	United States	2:16.88	Q
8	1	5	Regan Harrison	Australia	2:17.10	Q
9	1	3	David Denniston	United States	2:17.20	Q
10	1	6	John Stamhuis	Canada	2:17.30	Q
11	3	2	Kevin Clements	United States	2:17.55	Q
12	2	7	Yoshihisa Yamaguchi	Japan	2:18.74	Q
13	2	2	Wang Haibo	China	2:18.87	Q
14	1	7	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:19.53	Q
15	1	2	Chad Thomsen	Canada	2:19.56	Q
16	3	7	Tam Chi Kin	Hong Kong	2:22.43	Q
17	2	1	José Belarmino Souza	Brazil	2:23.22
18	1	1	Michael Andrew Scott	Hong Kong	2:24.24
19	3	8	Kieran Daly	New Zealand	2:25.98
-	2	5	Morgan Knabe	Canada	DNS
-	3	1	Rafael Chua	Philippines	DNS
-	3	4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on August 26.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Jim Piper	Australia	2:11.54	Q, CR
2	2	5	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:12.90	Q
3	1	5	Mike Brown	Canada	2:13.28	Q
4	2	4	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	2:13.48	Q
5	2	2	David Denniston	United States	2:13.73	Q
6	1	4	Thomas Wilkens	United States	2:13.84	Q
7	1	2	John Stamhuis	Canada	2:15.87	Q
8	2	6	Mark Gangloff	United States	2:16.19	Q
9	2	3	Marcelo Tomazini	Brazil	2:16.25
10	1	6	Regan Harrison	Australia	2:16.40
11	2	7	Wang Haibo	China	2:18.98
12	1	7	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:19.67
13	2	1	Chad Thomsen	Canada	2:20.06
14	1	1	Tam Chi Kin	Hong Kong	2:22.88
15	1	8	Kieran Daly	New Zealand	2:24.45
16	2	8	Michael Andrew Scott	Hong Kong	2:26.37

Final

The final was held on August 27.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:11.80
	4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:12.53
	6	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	2:12.71
4	3	Mike Brown	Canada	2:12.87
5	2	David Denniston	United States	2:13.10
6	8	Regan Harrison	Australia	2:15.69
7	7	John Stamhuis	Canada	2:16.42
8	1	Marcelo Tomazini	Brazil	2:17.25