# 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Thomas Fraser-Holmes of Australia.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
| World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:42.00 | Rome, Italy | 28 July 2009 |
| Pan Pacific Championships record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 1:44.75 | Yokohama, Japan | 24 August 2002 |

## Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
| KEY: | QA | Qualified A Final | QB | Qualified B Final | CR | Championships record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Heats

The first round was held on 9 August from 10:00.
Only two swimmers from each country may advance to the A or B final. If a country not qualify any swimmer to the A final, that same country may qualify up to three swimmers to the B final.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andrew Seliskar | United States | 1:45.81 | QA |
| 2 | Townley Haas | United States | 1:46.19 | QA |
| 3 | Alexander Graham | Australia | 1:46.35 | QA |
| 4 | Jack Cartwright | Australia | 1:46.38 | QA, WD |
| 5 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:46.42 | QA |
| 6 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 1:46.54 | QA |
| 7 | Zachary Apple | United States | 1:46.56 | QB |
| 7 | Blake Pieroni | United States | 1:46.56 | QB |
| 9 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 1:46.62 | QB, WD |
| 10 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:46.63 | QA |
| 11 | Mack Horton | Australia | 1:46.66 | QB |
| 12 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:46.84 | |
| 13 | Jack Conger | United States | 1:46.85 | |
| 14 | Luiz Altamir Melo | Brazil | 1:47.19 | QA |
| 15 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:47.47 | QB |
| 16 | Naito Ehara | Japan | 1:47.67 | QA |
| 17 | Reo Sakata | Japan | 1:47.68 | QB |
| 18 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 1:47.89 | |
| 19 | Austin Katz | United States | 1:48.44 | |
| 20 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 1:48.83 | QB |
| 21 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 1:48.90 | QB |
| 22 | Yuki Kobori | Japan | 1:49.33 | QB |
| 23 | Alex Pratt | Canada | 1:49.35 | |
| 24 | Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 1:49.74 | |
| 25 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 1:49.84 | |
| 26 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 1:49.96 | |
| 27 | Juran Mizohata | Japan | 1:50.21 | |
| 28 | Owen Daly | Canada | 1:50.35 | |
| 29 | Abrahm Devine | United States | 1:51.83 | |
| 30 | Liu Shaofeng | China | 1:52.65 | |
| 31 | Mack Darragh | Canada | 1:53.26 | |
| 32 | Jarod Hatch | Philippines | 1:55.99 | |
| 33 | Samir Al-Adawi | Oman | 1:58.67 | |
| 34 | Noel Keane | Palau | 2:05.51 | NR |
| 35 | Armand Chan | Philippines | 2:07.64 | |
| 36 | Mark Imazu | Guam | 2:13.17 | |
| 37 | Nelson Batallones | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:18.42 | |
| – | Federico Grabich | Argentina | DNS | |

### B Final

The B final was held on 9 August from 17:30.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | Blake Pieroni | United States | 1:46.68 |
| 10 | Zachary Apple | United States | 1:46.78 |
| 11 | Mack Horton | Australia | 1:47.90 |
| 12 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:48.04 |
| 13 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 1:48.23 |
| 14 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 1:48.88 |
| 15 | Reo Sakata | Japan | 1:48.94 |
| 16 | Yuki Kobori | Japan | 1:49.32 |

### A Final

The A final was held on 9 August from 17:30.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Townley Haas | United States | 1:45.56 |
| | Andrew Seliskar | United States | 1:45.74 |
| | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:45.92 |
| 4 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:46.12 |
| 5 | Alexander Graham | Australia | 1:46.50 |
| 6 | Naito Ehara | Japan | 1:46.90 |
| 7 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 1:46.94 |
| 8 | Luiz Altamir Melo | Brazil | 1:47.43 |