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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
Dates:	August 17, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	16
Nations:	6
Win Value:	2:05.40
Gold:	Jessicah Schipper
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Yuko Nakanishi
Silvernoc:	JPN
Bronze:	Yurie Yano
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The women's 200 metre butterfly 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 Petria Thomas of Australia.^[4]

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

Records

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

World record		2:05.61	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	July 28, 2005
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:06.53	Sydney, Australia	August 25, 1999

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 17, at 10:57.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4			2:07.85	QA
2	2	3			2:09.40	QA
3	1	4	Yurie Yano		2:09.59	QA
4	2	5	Kim Vandenberg		2:09.71	QA
5	1	3	Stephanie Rice		2:10.22	QA
6	1	5	Yuko Nakanishi		2:10.27	QA
7	1	2	Audrey Lacroix		2:10.36	QA
8	2	2	MacKenzie Downing		2:10.76	QA
9	1	6	Choi Hye-Ra		2:10.90	QB
10	2	6	Kathleen Hersey		2:10.97	QB
11	1	1	Teresa Crippen		2:12.25	QB
12	2	7	Shin Hae-In		2:13.23	QB
13	2	1	Kayla Rawlings		2:15.62	QB
14	1	7	Kylie Palmer		2:17.34	QB
15	1	8	Joanna Maranhão		2:17.99	QB
16	2	8	Melanie Dodds		2:18.92	QB

B Final

The B final was held on August 17, at 19:46.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Choi Hye-Ra		2:10.32
10	5			2:10.49
11	7	Teresa Crippen		2:10.84
12	6	Kayla Rawlings		2:15.15
13	3	Shin Hae-In		2:16.17
14	2	Joanna Maranhão		2:16.80
15	1	Melanie Dodds		2:18.78

A Final

The A final was held on August 17, at 19:46.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			2:05.40	WR
	7	Yuko Nakanishi		2:06.52
	3	Yurie Yano		2:07.86
4	5	Mary Descenza		2:09.07
5	2	Stephanie Rice		2:09.54
6	6	Kim Vandenberg		2:09.83
7	8	MacKenzie Downing		2:10.53
8	1	Audrey Lacroix		2:10.96

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre butterfly heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . February 1, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre butterfly finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . February 1, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924092254/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010605000D000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . September 24, 2015 . dead .
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-02-01 . 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