2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Women's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 17, 2006 (heats &; finals)
Competitors	45 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:58.02
Medalists
	← 2002 2010 →

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^[1]^[2]^[3] The last champion was Lindsay Benko of US.^[4]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.^[5]

Records

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

World record	Franziska van Almsick (GER)	1:56.64	Berlin, Germany	August 3, 2002
Pan Pacific Championships record	Claudia Poll (CRC)	1:57.48	Fukuoka, Japan	August 10, 1997

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 17, at 10:00.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Katie Hoff	United States	1:58.79	QA
2	5	4	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	1:59.10	QA
3	6	5	Dana Vollmer	United States	1:59.47	QA
4	4	5	Bronte Barratt	Australia	1:59.48	QA
5	5	5	Lacey Nymeyer	United States	1:59.60	QA
6	4	6	Maki Mita	Japan	1:59.70	QA
7	4	4	Amanda Weir	United States	2:00.09	QA
8	4	7	Whitney Myers	United States	2:00.11	QA
9	3	8	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:00.58	QB
10	6	3	Kelly Stubbins	Australia	2:00.61	QB
11	5	3	Shayne Reese	Australia	2:00.79	QB
12	5	7	Norie Urabe	Japan	2:01.00	QB
13	5	6	Melanie Schlanger	Australia	2:01.18	QB
13	5	2	Kate Ziegler	United States	2:01.18	QB
15	6	2	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	2:01.21	QB
16	6	1	Rachel Komisarz	United States	2:01.24	QB
17	5	8	Brittany Reimer	Canada	2:01.52
18	4	2	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:01.54
19	4	3	Ashleigh McCleery	Australia	2:01.62
20	6	7	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	2:01.67
21	6	8	Kylie Palmer	Australia	2:01.70
22	3	6	Maya Beaudry	Canada	2:01.96
23	6	6	Kara Lynn Joyce	United States	2:02.24
24	3	4	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:02.34
25	3	5	Melanie Bouchard	Canada	2:02.55
26	3	3	Genevieve Saumur	Canada	2:02.57
27	3	7	Stephanie Williams	Australia	2:02.59
28	5	1	Haruka Ueda	Japan	2:02.73
29	2	2	Erica Morningstar	Canada	2:02.75
30	4	8	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:02.91
31	3	1	Melissa Corfe	South Africa	2:03.37
32	2	6	Emily Wong	Canada	2:03.45
33	2	4	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	2:04.39
34	1	3	Maiko Fujino	Japan	2:04.77
35	4	1	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	2:04.86
36	1	5	Stephanie Horner	Canada	2:05.30
37	2	3	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	2:05.31
38	2	7	Kristen Bradley	Canada	2:05.61
39	3	2	Sarah Paton	Australia	2:05.79
40	1	4	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	2:05.81
41	2	5	Lee Keo-Ra	South Korea	2:06.05
42	1	6	Jennifer Reilly	Australia	2:06.27
43	2	8	Izumi Kato	Japan	2:07.87
44	2	1	Nieh Pin-Chieh	Chinese Taipei	2:08.20
45	1	2	Renata Burgos	Brazil	2:13.26

B Final

The B final was held on August 17, at 18:29.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	5	Kelly Stubbins	Australia	2:00.21
10	4	Lacey Nymeyer	United States	2:00.68
11	7	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:01.11
12	2	Maya Beaudry	Canada	2:02.18
13	3	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:02.80
14	6	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	2:03.04
15	8	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:03.16
16	1	Haruka Ueda	Japan	2:03.69

A Final

The A final was held on August 17, at 18:29.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Katie Hoff	United States	1:58.02
	5	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	1:58.26
	6	Bronte Barratt	Australia	1:58.59
4	2	Maki Mita	Japan	1:59.29
5	3	Dana Vollmer	United States	1:59.76
6	1	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	1:59.83
7	8	Brittany Reimer	Canada	2:01.39
8	7	Norie Urabe	Japan	2:01.43