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

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 20, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	20
Nations:	9
Win Value:	2:26.36
Gold:	Suzaan van Biljon
Goldnoc:	RSA
Silver:	Asami Kitagawa
Silvernoc:	JPN
Bronze:	Jung Seul-Ki
Bronzenoc:	KOR
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The women's 200 metre breaststroke 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 Amanda Beard of US.^[4]

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

Records

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

World record		2:20.54	Melbourne, Australia	February 1, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:23.64	Sydney, Australia	August 27, 1999

All times are in minutes and seconds.

The first round was held on August 20, at 10:38.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Suzaan Van Biljon	2:27.76	QA
2	1	4	Asami Kitagawa	2:28.48	QA
3	2	3	Megan Jendrick	2:28.91	QA
4	2	5	Kristen Caverly	2:28.98	QA
5	2	4		2:29.45	QA
6	3	5	Jung Seul-Ki	2:29.51	QA
7	3	3	Sarah Katsoulis	2:31.10	QA
8	3	6	Back Su-Yeon	2:31.48	QA
9	3	7	Chelsey Salli	2:31.57	QB
10	1	3	Sun Ye	2:32.64	QB
11	2	6	Siow Yi Ting	2:33.01	QB
11	2	2	Jillian Tyler	2:33.01	QB
13	1	6	Kathleen Stoody	2:33.70	QB
14	1	5	Yoshimi Miwa	2:34.96	QB
15	3	1	Lisa Blackburn	2:35.61	QB
16	1	7	Jennifer Reilly	2:37.20	QB
17	2	1	Helen Pitchik	2:37.22
18	2	7		2:37.43
19	1	1	Annabelle Carey	2:38.24
20	1	2	Chen Huijia	2:40.39
-	3	2	Ariana Kukors	DSQ

The B final was held on August 20, at 19:27.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
9	4		2:30.90
10	5	Sun Ye	2:31.82
11	3	Siow Yi Ting	2:32.43
12	8	Chen Huijia	2:33.29
13	6	Kathleen Stoody	2:33.57
14	7	Lisa Blackburn	2:34.52
15	2	Yoshimi Miwa	2:34.91
16	1	Jennifer Reilly	2:35.22

The A final was held on August 20, at 19:27.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
	4		2:26.36
	5	Asami Kitagawa	2:27.07
	2	Jung Seul-Ki	2:27.09
4	3	Megan Jendrick	2:27.98
5	1	Back Su-Yeon	2:28.62
6	6	Kristen Caverly	2:28.66
7	7	Sarah Katsoulis	2:29.08
8	8	Chelsey Salli	2:32.19

Web site: Results of the 200-metre breaststroke heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . February 1, 2014.
Web site: Results of the 200-metre breaststroke finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . February 1, 2014.
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 .
http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
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