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

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.