2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 19, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	29
Nations:	12
Win Value:	2:08.86
Gold:	Reiko Nakamura
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Margaret Hoelzer
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Takami Igarashi
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The women's 200 metre backstroke 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 Margaret Hoelzer of US.^[4]

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

Records

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

World record		2:06.62	Athens, Greece	August 25, 1991
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:10.79	Edmonton, Canada	August 25, 1991

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 19, at 11:01.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Reiko Nakamura		2:10.02	QA, CR
2	3	4	Takami Igarashi		2:10.14	QA
3	4	5	Margaret Hoelzer		2:10.20	QA
4	4	4			2:10.76	QA
5	2	5	Elizabeth Beisel		2:11.68	QA
6	2	4	Joanna Fargus		2:12.30	QA
7	4	3	Melissa Ingram		2:12.75	QA
8	2	3	Fran Adcock		2:12.88	QA
9	4	6	Teresa Crippen		2:12.90	QB
10	3	2	Kirsty Coventry		2:13.11	QB
11	4	7	Ariana Kukors		2:13.34	QB
12	2	2	Lauren English		2:14.33	QB
13	2	6	Karina Leane		2:14.52	QB
14	3	6	Melissa Corfe		2:14.64	QB
15	3	7	Jung Yoo-Jin		2:15.39	QB
16	3	3	Hannah McLean		2:15.60	QB
17	4	2	Kelly Stefanyshyn		2:15.99
18	3	1	Kristen Caverly		2:16.14
19	1	4	Leila Vaziri		2:17.43
20	4	8	Lee Nam-Eun		2:17.59
21	3	8	Karah Stanworth		2:17.62
22	4	1	Liu Zhen		2:18.38
23	2	1	Jennifer Reilly		2:18.63
24	2	7	Melanie Bouchard		2:18.75
25	1	6	Monica Stitski		2:18.95
26	1	5	He Hsu-Jung		2:20.29
27	2	8	Tsai Hiu-Wai		2:20.52
28	1	3	Joanna Maranhão		2:23.37
29	1	2	Chelsey Salli		2:24.17

B Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4			2:09.21
10	5			2:12.38
11	7	Hannah McLean		2:13.65
12	6	Melissa Corfe		2:13.79
13	1	Kelly Stefanyshyn		2:13.83
14	2	Jung Yoo-Jin		2:14.87
15	3	Karina Leane		2:15.65
16	8	Lee Nam-Eun		2:18.74

A Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Reiko Nakamura		2:08.86	CR
	3	Margaret Hoelzer		2:09.42
	4	Takami Igarashi		2:10.30
4	8	Kirsty Coventry		2:12.34
5	6	Elizabeth Beisel		2:12.61
6	2	Joanna Fargus		2:13.48
7	7	Melissa Ingram		2:13.64
8	1	Fran Adcock		2:14.88

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre backstroke heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 19, 2006 . January 30, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre backstroke finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 19, 2006 . January 30, 2014.
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-30 . 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 .