2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue:	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates:	August 18, 2006 (heats &<br>finals)
Competitors:	59
Nations:	12
Win Value:	48.59
Gold:	Brent Hayden
Goldnoc:	CAN
Silver:	Jason Lezak
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Eamon Sullivan
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Bronze2:	Roland Schoeman
Bronzenoc2:	RSA
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^[1] ^[2] ^[3] The last champion was Ian Thorpe of Australia.^[4]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.^[5]

Records

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

World record		47.84	Sydney, Australia	September 19, 2000
Pan Pacific Championships record		48.81	Sydney, Australia	August 25, 1999

All times are in minutes and seconds.

The first round was held on August 18, at 10:12.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Jason Lezak	49.05	QA
2	6	5	Eamon Sullivan	49.17	QA
3	7	5	Brent Hayden	49.23	QA
4	6	4	Neil Walker	49.24	QA
5	5	4	César Cielo	49.32	QA
6	7	4		49.50	QA
7	8	1	Lyndon Ferns	49.57	QA
8	8	3	Ben Wildman-Tobriner	49.70	QA
9	7	3	Rick Say	49.72	QB
10	8	5		49.78	QB
11	7	6	Klete Keller	49.86	QB
12	3	3	Gary Hall, Jr.	50.02	QB
12	6	6	Andrew Mewing	50.02	QB
14	7	7	Ian Crocker	50.15	QB
15	4	4	Gerhard Zandberg	50.17	QB
16	6	7	Colin Russell	50.20	QB
17	8	6	Matt Rose	50.24
18	4	2	Ryan Lochte	50.26
18	5	8	Nicolas Oliveira	50.26
20	6	8	Daisuke Hosokawa	50.36
21	6	2	Takamitsu Kojima	50.39
22	7	1	Joel Greenshields	50.40
23	4	3	Rodrigo Castro	50.41
23	6	1	George Bovell	50.41
25	8	7	Yannick Lupien	50.54
26	5	6	Edvaldo Valério	50.62
26	7	2	Kenrick Monk	50.62
28	5	7	Marco Sapucaia	50.76
29	5	2	Eduardo Deboni	50.85
30	6	3	Nicholas Santos	50.86
31	7	8	Hiroaki Yamamoto	50.87
32	4	8	Michael Klueh	50.93
33	8	8	Casey Flouch	51.01
34	5	1	Nicholas Ffrost	51.07
35	8	2	Guilherme Santos	51.13
36	5	5	Makoto Ito	51.17
37	4	1	Ken Takakuwa	51.36
38	2	8	Gabriel Mangabeira	51.45
39	3	4	Yuji Sakurai	51.50
39	3	4	Lim Nam-Gyun	51.50
41	3	2	Corney Swanepoel	51.63
42	4	6	Andrew Lauterstein	51.64
43	3	1	Michael Jack	51.65
44	2	2	Joshua Krogh	51.75
45	3	8	Pascal Wollach	51.77
46	5	3	Cameron Gibson	51.79
47	2	7	Daniel Madwed	51.87
48	1	2	Hayden Stoeckel	51.92
49	3	5	Robert Voss	51.94
50	4	7	Peter Marshall	51.97
51	1	3	Moss Burmester	52.35
52	1	5	Ephraim Hannant	52.46
53	2	5	Ethan Rolff	52.72
53	2	6	Ben Pickersgill-Brown	52.72
55	2	3	Kendrick Uy	52.77
56	2	1	Jake Tapp	52.79
57	1	4	Oliver Elliot	53.58
58	2	4	Yuan Ping	53.72
59	1	6	John Zulch	54.37
-	4	5	Aaron Peirsol	DSQ

The B final was held on August 18, at 18:12.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
9	4		49.68
10	5	Andrew Mewing	50.07
11	1	Takamitsu Kojima	50.18
12	6	Rodrigo Castro	50.29
13	7	Daisuke Hosokawa	50.38
14	2	Nicolas Oliveira	50.58
15	8	George Bovell	50.89
16	3	Gerhard Zandberg	51.12

The A final was held on August 18, at 18:12.

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http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
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