2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre freestyle
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 20, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	51
Nations:	12
Win Value:	21.84
Gold:	Cullen Jones
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Roland Schoeman
Silvernoc:	RSA
Bronze:	Brent Hayden
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^{[1] [2] [3]} The last champion was Jason Lezak of US.^[4]

This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle.^[5]

Records

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

World record		21.64	Moscow, Russia	June 16, 2000
Pan Pacific Championships record		22.06	Sydney, Australia	August 28, 1999

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 20, at 10:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4			22.14	QA
2	6	4			22.16	QA
3	5	4	Ben Wildman-Tobriner		22.45	QA
4	5	5	Gary Hall, Jr.		22.46	QA
4	7	5	Jason Lezak		22.46	QA
6	5	7	César Cielo		22.54	QA
7	7	3	Neil Walker		22.61	QA
8	7	6	George Bovell		22.62	QA
9	7	2	Brent Hayden		22.63	QB
10	6	5	Eamon Sullivan		22.64	QB
11	6	6	Lyndon Ferns		22.65	QB
12	3	8	Peter Marshall		22.74	QB
13	6	3	Makoto Ito		22.79	QB
13	6	7	Marco Sapucaia		22.79	QB
15	5	2	Nicholas Santos		22.92	QB
16	7	8	Ian Crocker		22.94	QB
17	5	3	Guilherme Santos		23.01
18	5	6	Gerhard Zandberg		23.03
19	7	1	Matthew Lowe		23.16
20	4	8	Eduardo Deboni		23.19
21	3	7	Rodrigo Castro		23.22
22	7	7	Takeru Sasaki		23.24
23	4	3	Yannick Lupien		23.26
23	5	8	Rick Say		23.26
25	6	8	Daisuke Hosokawa		23.28
26	1	4	Nicolas Oliveira		23.34
26	6	1	Edvaldo Valério		23.34
28	4	6	Casey Flouch		23.48
29	3	5	Corney Swanepoel		23.51
30	5	1	Thomas Kindler		23.52
31	2	1	Andrew Mewing		23.54
32	3	3	Klete Keller		23.56
33	4	2	Joel Greenshields		23.59
34	2	4	Robert Voss		23.67
34	3	4	Ashley Delaney		23.67
34	4	4	Takamitsu Kojima		23.67
37	4	5	Hiroaki Yamamoto		23.72
38	4	7	Cameron Gibson		23.88
39	1	3	Nicholas Ffrost		23.94
40	4	1	Kenrick Monk		23.95
41	3	6	Michael Jack		24.01
42	2	2	Moss Burmester		24.06
43	3	2	Oliver Elliot		24.17
44	2	8	Pascal Wollach		24.19
45	2	7	Jake Tapp		24.22
46	2	6	Kendrick Uy		24.23
47	2	5	Raymond Betuzzi		24.30
48	3	1	Feng Lizhong		24.53
49	1	5	Ben Pickersgill-Brown		24.57
50	2	3	Lim Nam-Gyun		24.60
51	1	6	John Zulch		25.08
-	1	2	Charles Francis		DSQ
-	6	2	Matt Rose		DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 20, at 19:07.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Jason Lezak		22.40
10	6	Nicholas Santos		22.48
11	5	Marco Sapucaia		22.76
12	3	Makoto Ito		23.04
13	1	Yannick Lupien		23.11
14	2	Gerhard Zandberg		23.15
15	8	Rick Say		23.37
16	7	Takeru Sasaki		23.56

A Final

The A final was held on August 20, at 19:07.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			21.84	CR
	5			22.12
	7	Brent Hayden		22.22
4	8	Lyndon Ferns		22.42
5	3	Ben Wildman-Tobriner		22.44
6	6	César Cielo		22.45
7	1	Eamon Sullivan		22.57
8	2	George Bovell		22.59

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 50-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . January 6, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 50-metre freestyle finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . January 6, 2014.
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-07 . 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 .