2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

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Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue Saanich Commonwealth Place
DatesAugust 20, 2006 (heats &
finals)
Competitors18 from 7 nations
Winning time8:24.56
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2002
2010  

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. [1] [2] The last champion was Diana Munz of US. [3]

Contents

This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. The top 8 seeded swimmers swam in the evening, and the remaining swimmers swam in the morning session. [4] [5]

Records

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

World record Flag of the United States.svg  Janet Evans  (USA)8:16.22 Tokyo, Japan August 20, 1989
Pan Pacific Championships record Flag of the United States.svg  Janet Evans  (USA)8:16.22 Tokyo, Japan August 20, 1989

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

The first round was held on August 20, at 11:01, and the final was held on August 20, at 18:00. [4] [5]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg35 Kate Ziegler Flag of the United States.svg  United States 8:24.56
Silver medal icon.svg33 Ai Shibata Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 8:26.41
Bronze medal icon.svg34 Hayley Peirsol Flag of the United States.svg  United States 8:27.57
436 Sachiko Yamada Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 8:30.29
513 Yurie Yano Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 8:34.45
637 Brittany Reimer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 8:37.84
732 Melissa Gorman Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 8:37.90
814 Kelsey Ditto Flag of the United States.svg  United States 8:38.34
915 Linda Mackenzie Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 8:38.61
1038 Kristel Köbrich Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 8:40.95
1116 Tanya Hunks Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 8:41.43
1211 Cecilia Biagioli Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 8:42.12
1331 Stephanie Williams Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 8:44.59
1417 Savannah King Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 8:45.21
1524 Lee Ji-Eun Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 8:51.93
1618 Kylie Palmer Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 8:53.38
1725 Monica Stitski Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 8:56.29
1812 Sarah Paton Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 9:02.77

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