2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 20, 2006 (heats & finals)
Competitors	21 from 10 nations
Winning time	2:08.50
Medalists
Brendan Hansen    United States   Kosuke Kitajima    Japan   Scott Usher    United States
←  2002 2010  →

The men'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 Brendan Hansen 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	Brendan Hansen  (USA)	2:08.74	Irvine, United States	August 5, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record	Jim Piper  (AUS)	2:11.54	Yokohama, Japan	August 26, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

CR

Championships record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 20, at 10:49. ^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:10.37	QA, CR
2	2	3	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:10.61	QA
3	4	5	Scott Usher	United States	2:12.04	QA
4	2	5	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	2:12.56	QA
5	2	4	Genki Imamura	Japan	2:12.84	QA
5	3	4	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:12.84	QA
7	3	3	Michael Brown	Canada	2:13.42	QA
8	4	6	William Diering	South Africa	2:13.60	QA
9	3	5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:13.90	QB
10	4	3	Yuta Suenaga	Japan	2:14.23	QB
11	2	6	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	2:16.04	QB
12	3	2	Makoto Yamashita	Japan	2:17.13	QB
13	4	1	Sin Su-Jong	South Korea	2:17.51	QB
14	2	2	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:17.99	QB
15	3	1	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:18.97	QB
16	3	7	Mathieu Bois	Canada	2:19.00	QB
17	4	8	Scott Dickens	Canada	2:20.73
18	2	7	Wang Wei-Wen	Chinese Taipei	2:20.89
19	2	1	Chiang Hsin-Hung	Chinese Taipei	2:22.40
20	1	3	Bryan Mell	Canada	2:27.24
21	1	5	Benjamin Guzman	Chile	2:31.67
-	4	2	Dean Kent	New Zealand	DSQ
-	4	7	Mark Gangloff	United States	DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 20, at 19:41. ^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:12.30
10	4	Genki Imamura	Japan	2:14.81
11	7	Mathieu Bois	Canada	2:16.33
12	6	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:17.81
13	3	Sin Su-Jong	South Korea	2:18.08
14	2	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:19.93
15	8	Wang Wei-Wen	Chinese Taipei	2:20.45
16	1	Scott Dickens	Canada	2:20.65

A Final

The A final was held on August 20, at 19:41. ^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:08.50	WR
	5	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:10.87
	3	Scott Usher	United States	2:11.49
4	1	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:11.80
5	2	Michael Brown	Canada	2:12.56
6	6	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	2:12.99
7	7	William Diering	South Africa	2:13.32
8	8	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	2:15.50

References

1. "Results of the 200-metre breaststroke heats at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
2. "Results of the 200-metre breaststroke finals at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
3. "2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
4. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.