1991 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle


The men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 1991 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 22 at the Kinsmen Sports Center. The last champion was Doug Gjertsen of US.
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
World record1:46.69Bonn, West GermanyAugust 15, 1989
Pan Pacific Championships record1:49.09Tokyo, JapanAugust 17, 1989

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 22.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Joe Hudepohl1:49.45QA
2Jon Olsen1:49.85QA
3Ian Brown1:49.96QA
4Darren Ward1:50.22QA
5Dan Jorgensen1:50.23QA
6Troy Dalbey1:51.35QA
7Deane Pieters1:52.13QA
8Trent Bray1:52.17QA
9Turlough O'Hare1:52.18QB
10Masayuki Fujimoto1:52.38QB
11Taihei Maeda1:52.95QB
12Matt Hooper1:53.12QB
13Sebastien Goulet1:53.48QB
14John Steel1:53.49QB
15Frank Samel1:53.60QB
16Kieren Perkins1:53.62QB
17Toshiaki Kurasawa1:54.06
18Satoshi Kajitani1:54.33
19Matthew Dunn1:54.48
20Yumin Yan1:54.65
21Andrew Baildon1:54.94
22Kelvin Herrod1:55.05
23Arthur Li1:55.16
24Chris Fydler1:55.78
25Tsutomu Nakano1:56.26
26Jorge Herrera1:56.45
27Hidetoshi Yamanaka1:56.89
28Richard Bera1:57.30
29Kurt Eldridge1:58.77
30Joaquini Lagier1:59.47
31Yi-Chung Chen2:00.02

B Final

The B final was held on August 22.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
9Dan Jorgensen1:50.63
10Kieren Perkins1:51.45
11Taihei Maeda1:52.34
12Frank Samel1:52.97
13Satoshi Kajitani1:54.33
14John Steel1:54.42
15Arthur Li1:54.72
16Yumin Yan1:55.07

A Final

The A final was held on August 22.
RankLaneNationalityTimeNotes
Ian Brown1:49.48
Joe Hudepohl1:49.63
Darren Ward1:50.89
4Deane Pieters1:51.17
5Turlough O'Hare1:51.48
6Jon Olsen1:51.93
7Trent Bray1:51.97
8Masayuki Fujimoto1:52.34