2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The women's 400 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 Diana Munz of US.^[4]

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 19, 2006 (heats & finals)
Competitors	28 from 11 nations
Winning time	4:07.61
Medalists
Ai Shibata    Japan   Katie Hoff    United States   Sachiko Yamada    Japan
← 2002 2010 →

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.^[5]

Records

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

World record	Laure Manaudou (FRA)	4:02.13	Budapest, Hungary	August 6, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:04.53	Tokyo, Japan	August 19, 1989

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 19, at 10:00.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:09.55	QA
2	3	4	Katie Hoff	United States	4:09.70	QA
3	4	4	Kate Ziegler	United States	4:10.94	QA
4	4	5	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:11.04	QA
5	4	3	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:11.22	QA
6	4	6	Kelsey Ditto	United States	4:12.04	QA
7	2	5	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:12.10	QA
8	2	4	Hayley Peirsol	United States	4:12.34	QA
9	2	2	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	4:13.54	QB
10	3	3	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:13.72	QB
11	4	7	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:13.95	QB
12	2	3	Ashleigh McCleery	Australia	4:14.90	QB
13	4	2	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:14.92	QB
14	2	1	Tanya Hunks	Canada	4:15.00	QB
15	4	1	Melissa Gorman	Australia	4:15.34	QB
16	1	6	Savannah King	Canada	4:17.03	QB
17	3	6	Stephanie Williams	Australia	4:17.86
18	1	4	Maya Beaudry	Canada	4:18.73
19	3	8	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	4:18.74
20	2	7	Lee Ji-Eun	South Korea	4:20.07
21	1	5	Xia Chenying	China	4:20.75
22	1	2	Haruka Ueda	Japan	4:21.09
23	3	1	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	4:21.30
24	1	3	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	4:22.43
25	4	8	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	4:23.75
26	3	2	Sarah Paton	Australia	4:24.01
27	2	6	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	4:25.39
28	1	7	Lauren Arndt	Australia	4:28.72
-	3	7	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 19, at 18:00.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:09.68
10	4	Kelsey Ditto	United States	4:12.11
11	3	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:12.84
12	6	Tanya Hunks	Canada	4:16.64
13	7	Lee Ji-Eun	South Korea	4:16.91
14	1	Xia Chenying	China	4:18.63
15	2	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	4:20.11
16	8	Haruka Ueda	Japan	4:22.69

A Final

The A final was held on August 19, at 18:00.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.61
	5	Katie Hoff	United States	4:07.98
	2	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:08.42
4	3	Kate Ziegler	United States	4:08.47
5	4	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:08.68
6	7	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:09.95
7	8	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:12.45
8	1	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	4:13.38

References

1. "Results of the 200-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 19, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
2. "Results of the 200-metre freestyle finals at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 19, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
3. "2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
4. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. Swimming technical manual Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine