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

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 20, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	26
Nations:	11
Win Value:	2:10.11
Gold:	Whitney Myers
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Katie Hoff
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Stephanie Rice
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The women's 200 metre individual medley 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 Tomoko Hagiwara of Japan.^[4]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.^[5]

Records

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

World record		2:09.72	Shanghai, China	October 17, 1997
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:12.54	Kobe, Japan	August 15, 1993

All times are in minutes and seconds.

The first round was held on August 20, at 10:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	4		2:12.45	QA, CR
2	3	4		2:12.85	QA
3	4	5	Ariana Kukors	2:13.26	QA
4	3	7	Kirsty Coventry	2:15.75	QA
5	2	4	Stephanie Rice	2:16.38	QA
6	4	1	Kathleen Hersey	2:16.88	QA
7	2	6	Ashleigh McCleery	2:16.90	QA
8	3	3	Maiko Fujino	2:17.05	QA
9	3	5	Kaitlin Sandeno	2:17.52	QB
10	3	2	Julia Wilkinson	2:17.92	QB
11	4	2	Teresa Crippen	2:17.95	QB
11	4	8	Siow Yi Ting	2:17.95	QB
13	2	3	Jung Ji-Yeon	2:18.06	QB
14	4	6	Shayne Reese	2:18.09	QB
15	1	5	Mary Descenza	2:18.27	QB
16	3	1	Joanna Maranhão	2:18.28	QB
17	4	3	Helen Norfolk	2:18.35
18	2	5	Liu Jing	2:18.81
19	2	1	Izumi Kato	2:18.89
20	2	7	Stephanie Horner	2:19.03
21	1	4	Chen Huijia	2:19.14
22	4	7	Xia Chenying	2:19.95
23	1	3	Tsai Hiu Wai	2:20.49
24	2	8	Kristen Bradley	2:20.80
25	3	8	Elizabeth Beisel	2:20.95
26	2	2	Jennifer Reilly	2:22.01
-	3	6	Kristen Caverly	DSQ

The B final was held on August 20, at 18:14.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
9	4	Ariana Kukors	2:12.22
10	3		2:15.06
11	5	Jung Ji-Yeon	2:17.14
12	8	Stephanie Horner	2:18.04
13	1	Izumi Kato	2:18.72
14	6	Joanna Maranhão	2:18.73
15	7	Liu Jing	2:18.91
16	2	Helen Norfolk	2:19.27

The A final was held on August 20, at 18:14.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	5		2:10.11	CR
	4	Katie Hoff	2:11.51
	6	Stephanie Rice	2:13.21
4	3	Kirsty Coventry	2:14.27
5	7	Maiko Fujino	2:16.64
6	2	Ashleigh McCleery	2:16.75
7	8	Siow Yi Ting	2:16.92
8	1	Julia Wilkinson	2:17.49

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Web site: Results of the 200-metre individual medley finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . February 1, 2014.
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