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

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
Dates:	August 21, 2010 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	24
Nations:	7
Win Value:	2:20.69
Gold:	Rebecca Soni
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Leisel Jones
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Annamay Pierse
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	2006
Next:	2014

The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 21 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.^{[1] [2] [3]} The last champion was Suzaan van Biljon of South Africa.^{[4] [5]}

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

Records

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

World record		2:20.12	Rome, Italy	July 30, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record		2:23.64	Sydney, Australia	August 22, 1999

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 21, at 10:51.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Rebecca Soni		2:23.97	QA
2	4	2			2:25.52	QA
3	4	4	Rie Kaneto		2:25.80	QA
4	3	6	Micah Lawrence		2:25.90	QA
5	4	3	Sarah Katsoulis		2:26.01	QA
6	4	5	Annamay Pierse		2:26.07	QA
7	3	2	Katlin Freeman		2:26.15	QA
8	2	4			2:26.16	QA
9	2	5	Satomi Suzuki		2:26.60	QB
10	2	3	Fumie Kawanabe		2:27.27	QB
11	3	3	Martha McCabe		2:27.47	QB
12	4	6	Tessa Wallace		2:27.90	QB
13	2	6	Sally Foster		2:28.33	QB
14	2	7	Chelsey Salli		2:28.83	QB
15	2	2	Mina Matsushima		2:29.66	QB
16	3	5	Jeong Darae		2:30.17	QB
17	1	4	Jillian Tyler		2:30.40
18	4	7	Ashley McGregor		2:31.95
19	2	1	Samantha Marshall		2:32.02
20	1	5	Ann Chandler		2:32.87
21	4	1	Tianna Rissling		2:32.96
22	3	7	Sarra Lajnef		2:33.42
23	4	8	Carolina Mussi		2:36.34
24	1	3	Juliana Marin		2:41.67
-	3	1	Tatiane Sakemi		DNS

B Final

The B final was held on August 21, at 19:16.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Micah Lawrence		2:25.19
10	5	Fumie Watanabe		2:27.28
11	3	Tessa Wallace		2:27.69
12	2	Jeong Darae		2:27.70
13	6	Chelsey Salli		2:28.95
14	7	Sarra Lajnef		2:34.40
15	1	Carolina Mussi		2:39.76
16	8	Juliana Marin		2:41.54

A Final

The A final was held on August 21, at 19:16.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Rebecca Soni		2:20.69	CR
	7	Leisel Jones		2:23.23
	2	Annamay Pierse		2:23.65
4	1	Satomi Suzuki		2:23.83
5	5	Amanda Beard		2:24.30
6	6	Sarah Katsoulis		2:24.38
7	3	Rie Kaneto		2:24.85
8	8	Martha McCabe		2:27.33

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre breaststroke heats at 2010 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 21, 2010 . January 9, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre breaststroke finals at 2010 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 21, 2010 . January 9, 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 9, 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 .