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

Event:	Men's 200 metre freestyle
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 17, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	43
Nations:	11
Win Value:	1:46.20
Gold:	Klete Keller
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Park Tae-Hwan
Silvernoc:	KOR
Bronze:	Zhang Lin
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

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]

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		1:44.06	Fukuoka, Japan	July 25, 2001
Pan Pacific Championships record		1:44.75	Yokohama, Japan	August 26, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 17, at 10:20.

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

B Final

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

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

A Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6			1:46.20
	2	Park Tae-Hwan		1:47.51
	3	Zhang Lin		1:47.59
4	5			1:47.78
5	4	Peter Vanderkaay		1:48.05
6	1	Kenrick Monk		1:49.12
7	7	Brian Johns		1:49.54
8	8	Leith Brodie		1:50.12

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . January 6, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . January 6, 2014.
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107014441/http://www.swimvortex.com/2006-pan-pacific-swimming-championships-to-be-held-in-victoria-bc/ . 2014-01-07 . dead .
4. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
5. Web site: Swimming Technical Manual . Guadalajara 2011 . 23 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf . 28 July 2011 .