2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

The men's 200 metre individual medley 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 Michael Phelps of US.^[4]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.^[5]

Records

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

World record		1:55.94	Maryland, United States	August 9, 2003
Pan Pacific Championships record		1:59.70	Yokohama, Japan	August 29, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 20, at 10:13.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Michael Phelps		2:00.30	QA
2	4	3	Brian Johns		2:00.95	QA
3	3	4	Ryan Lochte		2:01.08	QA
4	2	4	Ken Takakuwa		2:01.19	QA
5	3	5	Leith Brodie		2:01.32	QA
6	2	5	Hidemasa Sano		2:01.79	QA
7	4	6	Adam Lucas		2:02.10	QA
8	2	3	Thiago Pereira		2:02.72	?
8	4	5	Dean Kent		2:02.72	?
10	3	3	Keith Beavers		2:03.23	QB
11	2	6	Shinya Taniguchi		2:03.31	QB
12	4	2	Travis Nederpelt		2:03.97	QB
13	4	7	Lucas Salatta		2:04.15	QB
14	3	2	André Schultz		2:04.48	QB
15	4	8	Fernando Silva		2:04.50	QB
16	3	6	Jeremy Knowles		2:05.03	QB
17	2	7	Tobias Oriwol		2:05.54
18	4	1	Jordan Hartney		2:06.55
19	3	1	Daniel Madwed		2:08.18
20	2	2	Sun Hongzhe		2:08.20
21	3	7	Tsai Kuo-Chuan		2:08.88
22	1	5	Ephraim Hannant		2:10.34
23	1	4	Lin Yu-An		2:10.37
24	1	3	Hsu Chi-Chien		2:10.46
-	2	1	Michael Klueh		DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 20, at 18:28.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3	Travis Nederpelt		2:02.43
10	4	Keith Beavers		2:02.96
11	5	Shinya Taniguchi		2:03.95
12	7			2:04.34
13	2	André Schultz		2:05.31
14	6	Lucas Salatta		2:05.79
15	8	Daniel Madwed		2:05.93
16	1	Tobias Oriwol		2:06.61

A Final

The A final was held on August 20, at 18:28.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:55.84	WR
	3	Ryan Lochte		1:56.11
	6	Ken Takakuwa		1:59.81
4	2			2:00.75
5	7	Hidemasa Sano		2:01.50
6	5	Brian Johns		2:01.71
7	8	Dean Kent		2:02.29
8	1	Adam Lucas		2:02.36

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results of the 200-metre individual medley heats at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . January 11, 2014.
2. Web site: Results of the 200-metre individual medley finals at 2006 Pan Pacific . OmegaTiming . August 20, 2006 . January 11, 2014.
3. Web site: 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria . 2014-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107014441/http://www.swimvortex.com/2006-pan-pacific-swimming-championships-to-be-held-in-victoria-bc/ . 2014-01-07 . dead .
4. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
5. Web site: Swimming Technical Manual . Guadalajara 2011 . 23 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf . 28 July 2011 .