2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre freestyle
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 19, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	28
Nations:	11
Win Value:	4:07.61
Gold:	Ai Shibata
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Katie Hoff
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Sachiko Yamada
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The women's 400 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 Diana Munz of US.^[4]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.^[5]

Records

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

World record		4:02.13	Budapest, Hungary	August 6, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record		4:04.53	Tokyo, Japan	August 19, 1989

All times are in minutes and seconds.

The first round was held on August 19, at 10:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Bronte Barratt	4:09.55	QA
2	3	4		4:09.70	QA
3	4	4	Kate Ziegler	4:10.94	QA
4	4	5	Ai Shibata	4:11.04	QA
5	4	3	Sachiko Yamada	4:11.22	QA
6	4	6	Kelsey Ditto	4:12.04	QA
7	2	5	Linda Mackenzie	4:12.10	QA
8	2	4	Hayley Peirsol	4:12.34	QA
9	2	2	Cecilia Biagioli	4:13.54	QB
10	3	3	Kylie Palmer	4:13.72	QB
11	4	7	Claudia Poll	4:13.95	QB
12	2	3	Ashleigh McCleery	4:14.90	QB
13	4	2	Brittany Reimer	4:14.92	QB
14	2	1	Tanya Hunks	4:15.00	QB
15	4	1	Melissa Gorman	4:15.34	QB
16	1	6	Savannah King	4:17.03	QB
17	3	6	Stephanie Williams	4:17.86
18	1	4	Maya Beaudry	4:18.73
19	3	8	Kristel Köbrich	4:18.74
20	2	7	Lee Ji-Eun	4:20.07
21	1	5	Xia Chenying	4:20.75
22	1	2	Haruka Ueda	4:21.09
23	3	1	Lauren Boyle	4:21.30
24	1	3	Mariana Brochado	4:22.43
25	4	8	Alexa Komarnycky	4:23.75
26	3	2	Sarah Paton	4:24.01
27	2	6	Helen Norfolk	4:25.39
28	1	7	Lauren Arndt	4:28.72
-	3	7	Kaitlin Sandeno	DSQ

The B final was held on August 19, at 18:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
9	5		4:09.68
10	4	Kelsey Ditto	4:12.11
11	3	Brittany Reimer	4:12.84
12	6	Tanya Hunks	4:16.64
13	7	Lee Ji-Eun	4:16.91
14	1	Xia Chenying	4:18.63
15	2	Kristel Köbrich	4:20.11
16	8	Haruka Ueda	4:22.69

The A final was held on August 19, at 18:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
	6		4:07.61
	5	Katie Hoff	4:07.98
	2	Sachiko Yamada	4:08.42
4	3	Kate Ziegler	4:08.47
5	4	Bronte Barratt	4:08.68
6	7	Linda Mackenzie	4:09.95
7	8	Claudia Poll	4:12.45
8	1	Cecilia Biagioli	4:13.38

Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 19, 2006 . January 25, 2014.
Web site: Results of the 200-metre freestyle finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 19, 2006 . January 25, 2014.
Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-25 . 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 .
http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual