2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.^[1][2][3] The last champion was Reiko Nakamura of Japan.^[4][5]

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
Dates	August 20, 2010 (heats & finals)
Competitors	24 from 7 nations
Winning time	2:07.83
Medalists
Elizabeth Beisel    United States   Elizabeth Pelton    United States   Belinda Hocking    Australia
← 2006 2014 →

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.^[6]

Records

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

World record	Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)	2:04.81	Rome, Italy	August 1, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record	Reiko Nakamura (JPN)	2:08.86	Victoria, Canada	August 19, 2006

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 11:15.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	3	Elizabeth Pelton	United States	2:07.48	QA, CR
2	3	5	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:07.90	QA
3	4	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:08.45	QA
4	3	4	Shiho Sakai	Japan	2:08.86	QA
5	4	4	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:08.96	QA
6	2	3	Missy Franklin	United States	2:09.22	QA
7	2	4	Meagen Nay	Australia	2:09.78	QA
8	2	5	Marie Kamimura	Japan	2:10.28	QA
9	2	7	Genevieve Cantin	Canada	2:10.84	QB
10	4	6	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	2:11.25	QB
11	2	2	Teresa Crippen	United States	2:11.44	QB
12	4	7	Lauren Lavigna	Canada	2:11.83	QB
13	3	3	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:12.07	QB
14	3	7	Dominique Bouchard	Canada	2:12.90	QB
15	4	2	Morgan Scroggy	United States	2:13.05	QB
16	3	2	Sinead Russell	Canada	2:13.18	QB
17	3	1	Penny Marshall	New Zealand	2:14.58
18	2	1	Miyuki Takemura	Japan	2:14.67
19	1	5	Katy Murdoch	Canada	2:14.88
20	4	8	Lindsay Seemann	Canada	2:15.35
21	1	4	Lau Yin-Yan	Hong Kong	2:16.31
22	3	6	Sophie Edington	Australia	2:17.44
23	4	1	Fernanda Alvarenga	Brazil	2:20.23
24	1	3	Larissa Cieslak	Brazil	2:22.68
-	2	6	Hanae Ito	Japan	DNS

B Final

The B final was held on August 20, at 19:09.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Missy Franklin	United States	2:08.05
10	1	Sinead Russell	Canada	2:11.65
11	5	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:11.88
12	7	Teresa Crippen	United States	2:12.04
13	3	Dominique Bouchard	Canada	2:12.72
14	8	Miyuki Takemura	Japan	2:14.36
15	6	Lau Yin-Yan	Hong Kong	2:18.48
16	2	Fernanda Alvarenga	Brazil	2:20.67

A Final

The A final was held on August 20, at 19:09.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:07.83
	4	Elizabeth Pelton	United States	2:08.10
	6	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:08.60
4	3	Shiho Sakai	Japan	2:09.12
5	1	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	2:09.98
6	7	Genevieve Cantin	Canada	2:11.56
7	8	Lauren Lavigna	Canada	2:11.89
8	2	Marie Kamimura	Japan	2:12.21

References

1. "Results of the 200-metre backstroke heats at 2010 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
2. "Results of the 200-metre backstroke finals at 2010 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
3. 2010 Pan Pacific handbook
4. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. "2006 Pan Pacific - Full Results". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
6. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.