The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The previous champion was Tom Malchow of US.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.Swimming technical manual

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record1:53.93Barcelona, SpainJuly 22, 2003Pan Pacific Championships record1:55.21Yokohama, JapanAugust 27, 2002

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on August 17, at 10:52.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Michael Phelps 1:55.50 QA 2 1 4 Takeshi Matsuda 1:56.22 QA 3 2 4 Ryuichi Shibata 1:56.26 QA 4 1 5 Travis Nederpelt 1:56.66 QA 5 3 3 Takashi Yamamoto 1:56.84 QA 6 2 6 Nick D'Arcy 1:57.82 QA 7 3 6 Kaio Almeida 1:57.83 QA 8 2 5 Davis Tarwater 1:58.15 QA 9 3 2 Jeremy Knowles 1:58.25 QB 10 2 3 Joshua Krogh 1:58.77 QB 11 1 3 Daniel Madwed 1:59.36 QB 12 3 5 Moss Burmester 1:59.73 QB 13 1 6 Stefan Hirniak 1:59.85 QB 14 1 1 Eric Shanteau 2:00.78 QB 15 2 2 Chung Yong 2:00.88 QB 16 1 2 Chen Yanlong 2:02.65 QB 17 3 8 Fernando Silva 2:02.71 18 2 1 Jonathan Blouin 2:02.81 19 3 1 Adam Sioui 2:03.02 20 1 7 Zheng Lei 2:03.25 21 2 7 Hsu Chi-Chien 2:03.33 - 3 7 Michael Klueh DSQ

B Final The B final was held on August 17, at 20:00. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 4 Takashi Yamamoto 1:58.09 10 3 Daniel Madwed 1:58.31 11 5 Joshua Krogh 1:58.49 12 6 Moss Burmester 1:59.37 13 2 Stefan Hirniak 1:59.72 14 7 Chung Yong 2:01.88 15 1 Chen Yanlong 2:03.35 16 8 Fernando Silva 2:03.90

A Final The A final was held on August 17, at 20:00. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Michael Phelps 1:53.80 WR 3 Ryuichi Shibata 1:55.82 5 Takeshi Matsuda 1:56.20 4 6 Travis Nederpelt 1:58.20 5 1 Davis Tarwater 1:58.22 6 2 Nick D'Arcy 1:58.66 7 8 Jeremy Knowles 1:58.96 8 7 Kaio Almeida 1:59.34

References