2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
Dates	August 21, 2010 (heats & finals)
Competitors	22 from 10 nations
Winning time	2:08.36
Medalists
Kosuke Kitajima   Japan   Brenton Rickard   Australia   Eric Shanteau   United States

2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Irvine, USA
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
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
50 m		men		women
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
Marathon
10 km		men		women

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 21 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.^[1][2][3] The last champion was Brendan Hansen of US.^[4][5]

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

Records

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

World record	Christian Sprenger (AUS)	2:07.31	Rome, Italy	July 30, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record	Brendan Hansen (USA)	2:08.50	Victoria, Canada	August 20, 2006

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 21, at 11:07.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:09.23	QA
2	3	3	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:10.10	QA
3	3	6	Naoya Tomita	Japan	2:10.47	QA
4	3	5	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2:10.55	QA
5	2	4	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:10.93	QA
6	2	5	Yuta Suenaga	Japan	2:11.38	QA
7	3	2	Scott Spann	United States	2:12.15	QA
8	2	2	Craig Calder	Australia	2:12.42	QA
9	1	6	Elliot Keefer	United States	2:12.49	QB
10	1	4	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:12.57	QB
11	3	1	Scott Dickens	Canada	2:13.35	QB
12	1	2	Michael Alexandrov	United States	2:13.98	QB
13	3	4	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:15.02	QB
14	3	7	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:15.35	QB
15	1	7	Warren Barnes	Canada	2:16.21	QB
16	2	1	Paul Kornfeld	Canada	2:16.88	QB
17	2	6	Choi Kyu-Woong	South Korea	2:17.06
17	2	7	Miguel Molina	Philippines	2:17.06
19	1	5	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	2:18.44
20	1	1	Sean Nugent	Canada	2:18.84
21	3	8	Tsui Hoi Tung	Hong Kong	2:25.09
-	1	3	Tales Cerdeira	Brazil	DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 21, at 19:33.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2:12.74
10	5	Elliot Keefer	United States	2:13.10
11	3	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:16.44
12	2	Paul Kornfeld	Canada	2:16.51
13	7	Miguel Molina	Philippines	2:16.83
14	6	Warren Barnes	Canada	2:17.05
15	1	Choi Kyu-Woong	South Korea	2:19.21
16	8	Tsui Hoi Tung	Hong Kong	2:24.85

A Final

The A final was held on August 21, at 19:33.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:08.36	CR
	6	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:09.97
	5	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:10.13
4	3	Naoya Tomita	Japan	2:10.99
5	8	Scott Dickens	Canada	2:12.61
6	7	Craig Calder	Australia	2:12.62
7	2	Scott Spann	United States	2:13.08
8	1	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:14.42

References

1. "Results of the 200-metre breaststroke heats at 2010 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 21, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
2. "Results of the 200-metre breaststroke finals at 2010 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 21, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
3. 2010 Pan Pacific handbook
4. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
5. "2006 Pan Pacific - Full Results". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
6. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.