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

Event:	Women's 200 metre freestyle
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 17, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	45
Nations:	11
Win Value:	1:58.02
Gold:	Katie Hoff
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Linda Mackenzie
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Bronte Barratt
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The women's 200 metre freestyle 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 Lindsay Benko of US.^[4]

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

Records

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

World record		1:56.64	Berlin, Germany	August 3, 2002
Pan Pacific Championships record		1:57.48	Fukuoka, Japan	August 10, 1997

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 17, at 10:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4			1:58.79	QA
2	5	4	Linda Mackenzie		1:59.10	QA
3	6	5	Dana Vollmer		1:59.47	QA
4	4	5	Bronte Barratt		1:59.48	QA
5	5	5	Lacey Nymeyer		1:59.60	QA
6	4	6	Maki Mita		1:59.70	QA
7	4	4	Amanda Weir		2:00.09	QA
8	4	7	Whitney Myers		2:00.11	QA
9	3	8	Kaitlin Sandeno		2:00.58	QB
10	6	3	Kelly Stubbins		2:00.61	QB
11	5	3	Shayne Reese		2:00.79	QB
12	5	7	Norie Urabe		2:01.00	QB
13	5	6	Melanie Schlanger		2:01.18	QB
13	5	2	Kate Ziegler		2:01.18	QB
15	6	2	Claudia Poll		2:01.21	QB
16	6	1	Rachel Komisarz		2:01.24	QB
17	5	8	Brittany Reimer		2:01.52
18	4	2	Helen Norfolk		2:01.54
19	4	3	Ashleigh McCleery		2:01.62
20	6	7	Lauren Boyle		2:01.67
21	6	8	Kylie Palmer		2:01.70
22	3	6	Maya Beaudry		2:01.96
23	6	6			2:02.24
24	3	4	Julia Wilkinson		2:02.34
25	3	5	Melanie Bouchard		2:02.55
26	3	3	Genevieve Saumur		2:02.57
27	3	7	Stephanie Williams		2:02.59
28	5	1	Haruka Ueda		2:02.73
29	2	2	Erica Morningstar		2:02.75
30	4	8	Yang Chin-Kuei		2:02.91
31	3	1	Melissa Corfe		2:03.37
32	2	6	Emily Wong		2:03.45
33	2	4	Cecilia Biagioli		2:04.39
34	1	3	Maiko Fujino		2:04.77
35	4	1	Alison Fitch		2:04.86
36	1	5	Stephanie Horner		2:05.30
37	2	3	Mariana Brochado		2:05.31
38	2	7	Kristen Bradley		2:05.61
39	3	2	Sarah Paton		2:05.79
40	1	4	Alexa Komarnycky		2:05.81
41	2	5	Lee Keo-Ra		2:06.05
42	1	6	Jennifer Reilly		2:06.27
43	2	8	Izumi Kato		2:07.87
44	2	1	Nieh Pin-Chieh		2:08.20
45	1	2	Renata Burgos		2:13.26

B Final

The B final was held on August 17, at 18:29.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5			2:00.21
10	4	Lacey Nymeyer		2:00.68
11	7	Julia Wilkinson		2:01.11
12	2	Maya Beaudry		2:02.18
13	3	Helen Norfolk		2:02.80
14	6	Lauren Boyle		2:03.04
15	8	Yang Chin-Kuei		2:03.16
16	1	Haruka Ueda		2:03.69

A Final

The A final was held on August 17, at 18:29.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:58.02
	5	Linda Mackenzie		1:58.26
	6	Bronte Barratt		1:58.59
4	2	Maki Mita		1:59.29
5	3	Dana Vollmer		1:59.76
6	1	Claudia Poll		1:59.83
7	8	Brittany Reimer		2:01.39
8	7	Norie Urabe		2:01.43

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . January 19, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 17, 2006 . January 19, 2014.
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-24 . 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 .