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

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 1991 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Men's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 1991 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Kinsmen Sports Center
Dates	August 22, 1991 (heats &; finals)
Competitors	31 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:49.48
Medalists

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 1991 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 22 at the Kinsmen Sports Center.^[1]^[2] The last champion was Doug Gjertsen of US.^[3]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.^[4]

Records

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

World record	Giorgio Lamberti (ITA)	1:46.69	Bonn, West Germany	August 15, 1989
Pan Pacific Championships record	Doug Gjertsen (USA)	1:49.09	Tokyo, Japan	August 17, 1989

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

The first round was held on August 22.^[1]^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joe Hudepohl	United States	1:49.45	QA
2	Jon Olsen	United States	1:49.85	QA
3	Ian Brown	Australia	1:49.96	QA
4	Darren Ward	Canada	1:50.22	QA
5	Dan Jorgensen	United States	1:50.23	QA
6	Troy Dalbey	United States	1:51.35	QA
7	Deane Pieters	Australia	1:52.13	QA
8	Trent Bray	New Zealand	1:52.17	QA
9	Turlough O'Hare	Canada	1:52.18	QB
10	Masayuki Fujimoto	Japan	1:52.38	QB
11	Taihei Maeda	Japan	1:52.95	QB
12	Matt Hooper	United States	1:53.12	QB
13	Sebastien Goulet	Canada	1:53.48	QB
14	John Steel	New Zealand	1:53.49	QB
15	Frank Samel	Canada	1:53.60	QB
16	Kieren Perkins	Australia	1:53.62	QB
17	Toshiaki Kurasawa	Japan	1:54.06
18	Satoshi Kajitani	Japan	1:54.33
19	Matthew Dunn	Australia	1:54.48
20	Yumin Yan	China	1:54.65
21	Andrew Baildon	Australia	1:54.94
22	Kelvin Herrod	Australia	1:55.05
23	Arthur Li	Hong Kong	1:55.16
24	Chris Fydler	Australia	1:55.78
25	Tsutomu Nakano	Japan	1:56.26
26	Jorge Herrera	Puerto Rico	1:56.45
27	Hidetoshi Yamanaka	Japan	1:56.89
28	Richard Bera	Indonesia	1:57.30
29	Kurt Eldridge	Australia	1:58.77
30	Joaquini Lagier	Costa Rica	1:59.47
31	Yi-Chung Chen	Chinese Taipei	2:00.02

The B final was held on August 22.^[1]^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
9	Dan Jorgensen	United States	1:50.63
10	Kieren Perkins	Australia	1:51.45
11	Taihei Maeda	Japan	1:52.34
12	Frank Samel	Canada	1:52.97
13	Satoshi Kajitani	Japan	1:54.33
14	John Steel	New Zealand	1:54.42
15	Arthur Li	Hong Kong	1:54.72
16	Yumin Yan	China	1:55.07

The A final was held on August 22.^[1]^[2]

Rank	Lane	Nationality	Time
	Ian Brown	Australia	1:49.48
	Joe Hudepohl	United States	1:49.63
	Darren Ward	Canada	1:50.89
4	Deane Pieters	Australia	1:51.17
5	Turlough O'Hare	Canada	1:51.48
6	Jon Olsen	United States	1:51.93
7	Trent Bray	New Zealand	1:51.97
8	Masayuki Fujimoto	Japan	1:52.34

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Results of the 1991 Pan Pacific". Swim News. September 1991. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Results of the 1991 Pan Pacific" (PDF). USA Swimming. September 1991. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

1991 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m		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