1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 25–26 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre. The last champion was Kurt Grote of US.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history

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 record2:10.16Barcelona, SpainJuly 29, 1992Pan Pacific Championships record2:11.96Edmonton, CanadaAugust 25, 1991

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on August 25.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Simon Cowley 2:15.43 Q 2 Ryan Mitchell 2:15.67 Q 3 Tom Wilkens 2:15.73 Q 4 Terence Parkin 2:16.34 Q 5 Akira Hayashi 2:16.88 Q 6 Regan Harrison 2:16.98 Q 7 Yoshinobu Miyazaki 2:17.90 Q 8 Michel Boulianne 2:18.03 Q 9 Elvin Chia 2:18.78 Q 10 Ryosuke Imai 2:18.91 Q 11 Nathan Hewitt 2:19.03 Q 12 Kurt Grote 2:19.08 Q 13 Steven Ferguson 2:19.35 Q 14 Michael Norment 2:19.44 Q 15 Jason Hunter 2:19.66 Q 16 Gregory Owen 2:20.18 Q 17 Tam Chi Kin 2:20.55 18 Matthew Huang 2:20.78 19 Morgan Knabe 2:21.68 20 Dean Kent 2:23.20 21 Michael Scott 2:23.65 22 Chris Stewart 2:23.75 23 Brett Petersen 2:24.74 24 Matthew Kwok 2:26.55

Semifinals The semifinals were held on August 25.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Simon Cowley 2:13.31 Q 2 Regan Harrison 2:13.78 Q 3 Tom Wilkens 2:14.04 Q 4 Ryan Mitchell 2:14.67 5 Kurt Grote 2:15.19 Q 6 Terence Parkin 2:15.26 Q 7 Akira Hayashi 2:15.34 Q 8 Elvin Chia 2:16.90 Q 9 Nathan Hewitt 2:17.48 10 Yoshinobu Miyazaki 2:18.09 Q 10 Michel Boulianne 2:18.09 12 Ryosuke Imai 2:18.27 13 Jason Hunter 2:19.29 14 Gregory Owen 2:19.68 15 Steven Ferguson 2:19.79 16 Michael Norment 2:20.33

Final The final was held on August 26. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Simon Cowley 2:12.98 Tom Wilkens 2:13.97 Terence Parkin 2:14.12 4 Regan Harrison 2:14.53 5 Kurt Grote 2:15.41 6 Akira Hayashi 2:15.64 7 Elvin Chia 2:16.41 8 Yoshinobu Miyazaki 2:18.41

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