2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 18, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	47
Nations:	10
Win Value:	53.87
Gold:	Natalie Coughlin
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Amanda Weir
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Melanie Schlanger
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^{[1] [2] [3]} The last champion was Natalie Coughlin of US.^[4]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.^[5]

Records

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

World record		53.30	Budapest, Hungary	August 2, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record		53.99	Yokohama, Japan	August 29, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 18, at 10:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4			53.83	QA, CR
2	6	4	Amanda Weir		54.23	QA
3	6	5			54.97	QA
4	5	5	Melanie Schlanger		55.16	QA
5	4	4	Lacey Nymeyer		55.19	QA
6	5	3	Whitney Myers		55.34	QA
7	4	5	Shayne Reese		55.58	QA
8	5	2	Erica Morningstar		55.77	QA
9	4	2	Linda MacKenzie		55.90	QB
10	5	7	Victoria Poon		56.08	QB
11	5	1	Genevieve Saumur		56.16	QB
12	2	6	Hannah McLean		56.19	QB
13	6	1	Julia Wilkinson		56.27	QB
14	6	3	Courtney Cashion		56.32	QB
15	4	3	Dana Vollmer		56.40	QB
16	4	6	Kelly Stubbins		56.42	QB
17	6	7	Claudia Poll		56.51
18	4	1	Maki Mita		56.61
19	3	3	Seanna Mitchell		56.63
19	3	2	Kaori Yamada		56.63
21	4	7	Norie Urabe		56.64
22	3	6	Audrey Lacroix		56.69
23	3	7	Lee Keo-Ra		56.79
24	2	4	Emily Wong		56.85
25	3	5	Hannah Wilson		56.88
26	2	3	Leila Vaziri		57.18
27	6	2	Mary Descenza		57.28
28	1	5	Kim Dal-Eun		57.32
29	5	6	Lauren Boyle		57.43
30	3	8	Maya Beaudry		57.51
31	6	6	Alison Fitch		57.52
32	4	8	Haruka Ueda		57.56
33	6	8	Yang Chin-Kuei		57.62
34	1	4	Tsai Hiu-Wai		57.68
34	3	1	Nieh Pin-Chieh		57.68
36	1	3	Fran Adcock		57.85
36	1	8	Karina Leane		57.85
38	5	8	Kylie Palmer		57.91
39	2	1	Michelle Engelsman		58.01
40	3	4	Renata Burgos		58.05
41	2	5	Liz Coster		58.22
42	2	2	Motomi Nakamura		58.31
43	1	2	Lauren English		58.83
44	1	1	Kayla Rawlings		59.07
45	1	6	Lee Leong Kwai		59.42
46	2	8	Sze Hang Yu		59.47
47	1	7	Sarah Paton		59.82
-	2	7	Kate Ziegler		DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 18, at 18:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4			54.93
10	5	Linda MacKenzie		55.94
11	3	Genevieve Saumur		56.40
12	6	Maki Mita		56.57
13	1	Hannah Wilson		56.69
14	2	Kaori Yamada		56.76
14	7	Lee Keo-Ra		56.76
16	8	Kim Dal-Eun		57.45

A Final

The A final was held on August 18, at 18:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			53.87
	5	Amanda Weir		53.92
	3	Melanie Schlanger		55.00
4	6	Shayne Reese		55.33
5	2	Erica Morningstar		55.36
6	7	Victoria Poon		56.02
7	1	Hannah McLean		56.38
8	8	Claudia Poll		56.84

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 100-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 18, 2006 . January 19, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 100-metre freestyle finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 18, 2006 . January 19, 2014.
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-19 . 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. http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual