| Event: | Men's 400 metre freestyle |
| Competition: | 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships |
| Venue: | Saanich Commonwealth Place |
| Dates: | August 19, 2006 (heats &<br>finals) |
| Competitors: | 35 |
| Nations: | 11 |
| Win Value: | 3:45.72 |
| Gold: | Park Tae-Hwan |
| Goldnoc: | KOR |
| Silver: | Zhang Lin |
| Silvernoc: | CHN |
| Bronze: | Klete Keller |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 2002 |
| Next: | 2010 |
The men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 19 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.[1] [2] [3] The last champion was Ian Thorpe of Australia.[4]
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.[5]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
| World record | 3:40.08 | Manchester, Great Britain | July 30, 2002 | ||
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 3:41.83 | Sydney, Australia | August 22, 1999 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
The first round was held on August 19, at 10:21.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | Park Tae-Hwan | 3:50.41 | QA | ||
| 2 | 5 | 7 | Robert Margalis | 3:50.75 | QA | ||
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Klete Keller | 3:50.92 | QA | ||
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Andrew Hurd | 3:51.20 | QA | ||
| 5 | 5 | 2 | Erik Vendt | 3:51.56 | QA | ||
| 6 | 4 | 4 | Peter Vanderkaay | 3:51.94 | QA | ||
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Ryan Lochte | 3:52.33 | QA | ||
| 8 | 4 | 5 | Zhang Lin | 3:52.49 | QA | ||
| 9 | 4 | 6 | Ryan Cochrane | 3:52.63 | QB | ||
| 10 | 3 | 4 | Takeshi Matsuda | 3:52.80 | QB | ||
| 11 | 3 | 5 | Michael Klueh | 3:52.88 | QB | ||
| 12 | 3 | 6 | Troyden Prinsloo | 3:54.10 | QB | ||
| 13 | 4 | 3 | Fran Crippen | 3:54.46 | QB | ||
| 14 | 2 | 4 | Kang Yong-Hwan | 3:54.60 | QB | ||
| 15 | 3 | 8 | Joshua Krogh | 3:54.93 | QB | ||
| 16 | 4 | 8 | Felipe May Araújo | 3:55.10 | QB | ||
| 17 | 2 | 5 | Armando Negreiros | 3:55.24 | |||
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Kenichi Doki | 3:56.02 | |||
| 19 | 5 | 6 | Hisato Matsumoto | 3:56.15 | |||
| 20 | 4 | 2 | Xin Tong | 3:56.21 | |||
| 21 | 3 | 3 | Nicholas Ffrost | 3:56.77 | |||
| 22 | 2 | 3 | Raymond Betuzzi | 3:58.24 | |||
| 23 | 2 | 2 | Bryn Murphy | 3:58.58 | |||
| 24 | 3 | 1 | Yuji Sakurai | 3:59.74 | |||
| 25 | 3 | 7 | Robert Voss | 3:59.80 | |||
| 26 | 5 | 8 | Ty Hurst | 4:00.19 | |||
| 27 | 2 | 6 | Tang Sheng-Chieh | 4:01.04 | |||
| 28 | 5 | 1 | Cameron Smith | 4:02.76 | |||
| 29 | 2 | 8 | Michael Jack | 4:03.19 | |||
| 30 | 4 | 7 | Kurtis MacGillivary | 4:07.01 | |||
| 31 | 2 | 1 | Pascal Wollach | 4:07.22 | |||
| 32 | 1 | 4 | Matthew Pariselli | 4:07.81 | |||
| 33 | 1 | 5 | Benjamin Guzman | 4:09.24 | |||
| 34 | 1 | 3 | Bogdan Knezevic | 4:11.98 | |||
| 35 | 2 | 7 | Pan Kevin-Owen | 4:12.67 |
The B final was held on August 19, at 18:18.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 4 | Peter Vanderkaay | 3:49.42 | |||
| 10 | 6 | Armando Negreiros | 3:53.82 | |||
| 11 | 7 | Hisato Matsumoto | 3:54.70 | |||
| 12 | 5 | 3:55.16 | ||||
| 13 | 1 | Xin Tong | 3:55.27 | |||
| 14 | 2 | Kenichi Doki | 3:55.81 | |||
| 15 | 8 | 3:55.94 | ||||
| 16 | 3 | Felipe May Araújo | 3:58.70 |
The A final was held on August 19, at 18:18.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Park Tae-Hwan | 3:45.72 | ||||
| 2 | Zhang Lin | 3:47.07 | ||||
| 3 | 3:47.17 | |||||
| 4 | 6 | 3:49.32 | ||||
| 5 | 5 | Robert Margalis | 3:49.67 | |||
| 6 | 1 | Takeshi Matsuda | 3:50.96 | |||
| 7 | 7 | Ryan Cochrane | 3:53.70 | |||
| 8 | 8 | Kang Yong-Hwan | 3:54.05 |