2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.[1][2][3] The last champion was Ian Thorpe of Australia.[4]

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 17, 2006 (heats & finals)
Competitors	43 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:46.20
Medalists
Klete Keller    United States   Park Tae-Hwan    South Korea   Zhang Lin    China

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[5]

Records

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

World record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.06	Fukuoka, Japan	July 25, 2001
Pan Pacific Championships record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.75	Yokohama, Japan	August 26, 2002

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 17, at 10:20.[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	1:47.75	QA
2	5	3	Brent Hayden	Canada	1:48.12	QA
3	6	5	Zhang Lin	China	1:48.46	QA
4	6	4	Klete Keller	United States	1:48.47	QA
5	4	5	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	1:48.91	QA
6	5	2	Michael Klueh	United States	1:49.04	QA
7	4	6	Brian Johns	Canada	1:49.17	QA
7	6	3	Andrew Hurd	Canada	1:49.17	QA
9	5	6	Colin Russell	Canada	1:49.34	QB
10	6	6	Kenrick Monk	Australia	1:49.44	QB
11	2	7	Leith Brodie	Australia	1:49.56	QB
11	4	4	Rick Say	Canada	1:49.56	QB
13	5	5	Nicholas Ffrost	Australia	1:49.81	QB
14	5	7	Takamitsu Kojima	Japan	1:50.15	QB
15	6	2	Yuji Sakurai	Japan	1:50.18	QB
16	4	3	Andrew Mewing	Australia	1:50.30	QB
17	1	4	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	1:50.43
18	4	1	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	1:50.65
19	4	2	Daisuke Hosokawa	Japan	1:50.91
20	6	7	Hisato Matsumoto	Japan	1:50.94
21	3	5	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:50.95
22	6	1	Adam Lucas	Australia	1:51.04
23	2	4	Hiroaki Yamamoto	Japan	1:51.22
24	4	8	Joel Greenshields	Canada	1:51.34
25	3	8	Nicolas Oliveira	Brazil	1:51.35
26	3	4	Robert Voss	New Zealand	1:51.42
27	2	3	Lim Nam-Gyun	South Korea	1:51.71
28	3	2	Michael Jack	New Zealand	1:52.34
29	4	7	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	1:52.96
30	3	7	Raymond Betuzzi	Canada	1:53.05
31	3	6	André Schultz	Brazil	1:53.21
31	5	1	Xin Tong	China	1:53.21
33	6	8	Ephraim Hannant	Australia	1:53.24
34	2	6	Ben Pickersgill-Brown	New Zealand	1:53.44
35	5	8	Andrew McMillan	New Zealand	1:54.68
36	3	2	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	1:55.29
37	3	5	Dean Kent	New Zealand	1:56.39
38	2	2	Chen Te-Tung	Chinese Taipei	1:57.33
39	2	8	Bryn Murphy	New Zealand	1:57.40
40	3	1	He Xiaofeng	China	1:57.44
41	1	6	Trent Grimsey	Australia	1:57.82
42	1	5	Benjamin Guzman	Chile	1:58.92
43	1	3	Kendrick Uy	Philippines	2:03.73

B Final

The B final was held on August 17, at 18:43.[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3	Nicholas Ffrost	Australia	1:49.79
10	4	Michael Klueh	United States	1:49.83
11	5	Colin Russell	Canada	1:50.14
12	6	Takamitsu Kojima	Japan	1:50.16
13	8	Daisuke Hosokawa	Japan	1:51.15
14	1	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	1:51.27
15	2	Yuji Sakurai	Japan	1:51.55
16	7	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	1:52.06

A Final

The A final was held on August 17, at 18:43.[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Klete Keller	United States	1:46.20
	2	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	1:47.51
	3	Zhang Lin	China	1:47.59
4	5	Brent Hayden	Canada	1:47.78
5	4	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	1:48.05
6	1	Kenrick Monk	Australia	1:49.12
7	7	Brian Johns	Canada	1:49.54
8	8	Leith Brodie	Australia	1:50.12

References

1. "Results of the 200-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 17, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
2. "Results of the 200-metre freestyle finals at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 17, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
3. "2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
4. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.