2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
Dates:	August 20, 2010 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	24
Nations:	7
Win Value:	2:07.83
Gold:	Elizabeth Beisel
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Elizabeth Pelton
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Belinda Hocking
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2006
Next:	2014

The women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.^{[1] [2] [3]} The last champion was Reiko Nakamura of Japan.^{[4] [5]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.^[6]

Records

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

World record		2:04.81	Rome, Italy	August 1, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:08.86	Victoria, Canada	August 19, 2006

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 20, at 11:15.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	3	Elizabeth Pelton		2:07.48	QA, CR
2	3	5	Elizabeth Beisel		2:07.90	QA
3	4	5	Emily Seebohm		2:08.45	QA
4	3	4	Shiho Sakai		2:08.86	QA
5	4	4	Belinda Hocking		2:08.96	QA
6	2	3	Missy Franklin		2:09.22	QA
7	2	4	Meagen Nay		2:09.78	QA
8	2	5	Marie Kamimura		2:10.28	QA
9	2	7	Genevieve Cantin		2:10.84	QB
10	4	6	Melissa Ingram		2:11.25	QB
11	2	2	Teresa Crippen		2:11.44	QB
12	4	7	Lauren Lavigna		2:11.83	QB
13	3	3			2:12.07	QB
14	3	7	Dominique Bouchard		2:12.90	QB
15	4	2	Morgan Scroggy		2:13.05	QB
16	3	2	Sinead Russell		2:13.18	QB
17	3	1	Penny Marshall		2:14.58
18	2	1	Miyuki Takemura		2:14.67
19	1	5	Katy Murdoch		2:14.88
20	4	8	Lindsay Seemann		2:15.35
21	1	4	Lau Yin-Yan		2:16.31
22	3	6			2:17.44
23	4	1	Fernanda Alvarenga		2:20.23
24	1	3	Larissa Cieslak		2:22.68
-	2	6	Hanae Ito		DNS

B Final

The B final was held on August 20, at 19:09.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Missy Franklin		2:08.05
10	1	Sinead Russell		2:11.65
11	5			2:11.88
12	7	Teresa Crippen		2:12.04
13	3	Dominique Bouchard		2:12.72
14	8	Miyuki Takemura		2:14.36
15	6	Lau Yin-Yan		2:18.48
16	2	Fernanda Alvarenga		2:20.67

A Final

The A final was held on August 20, at 19:09.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Elizabeth Beisel		2:07.83
	4			2:08.10
	6	Belinda Hocking		2:08.60
4	3	Shiho Sakai		2:09.12
5	1	Melissa Ingram		2:09.98
6	7	Genevieve Cantin		2:11.56
7	8	Lauren Lavigna		2:11.89
8	2	Marie Kamimura		2:12.21

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre backstroke heats at 2010 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2010 . January 4, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre backstroke finals at 2010 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2010 . January 4, 2014.
3. http://www.panpacificswimming.com/docs/2010_Pan_Pacs_handbook.pdf 2010 Pan Pacific handbook
4. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
5. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific - Full Results . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . January 4, 2014.
6. 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 .