2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place; Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
Dates	August 19, 2006 (heats &; finals)
Competitors	28 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:54.44
Medalists
	← 2002 2010 →

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 19 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^[1]^[2]^[3] The last champion was Aaron Peirsol of US.^[4]

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

Records

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:54.66	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	July 29, 2005
Pan Pacific Championships record	Lenny Krayzelburg (USA)	1:55.87	Sydney, Australia	August 27, 1999

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

The first round was held on August 19, at 11:14.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:56.81	QA
2	3	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:57.64	QA
3	4	5	Tomomi Morita	Japan	1:59.10	QA
4	2	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:59.30	QA
5	2	5	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:59.89	QA
6	3	3	Masafumi Yamaguchi	Japan	2:00.01	QA
7	3	2	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	2:00.47	QA
8	2	6	Sun Hongzhe	United States	2:00.55	QA
9	2	3	Ephraim Hannant	Australia	2:00.56	QB
10	4	2	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	2:00.73	QB
11	4	7	Matthew Hawes	Canada	2:00.75	QB
12	3	5	Keith Beavers	Canada	2:00.92	QB
13	4	6	George Du Rand	South Africa	2:01.24	QB
14	2	2	Junichi Miyashita	Japan	2:01.55	QB
15	3	7	David Plummer	United States	2:01.89	QB
16	2	7	Ethan Rolff	Australia	2:02.80	QB
17	2	1	Ashley Delaney	Australia	2:03.42
18	1	3	Jake Tapp	Canada	2:04.51
19	1	4	John Zulch	New Zealand	2:04.70
20	2	8	André Schultz	Brazil	2:04.91
21	3	1	Lee Seung-Hyeon	South Korea	2:04.92
22	4	1	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:05.00
23	4	3	Keng Liat Lim	Malaysia	2:06.52
24	3	6	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	2:07.30
25	4	8	Zhang Yu	China	2:11.03
26	1	6	Feng Lizhong	China	2:11.77
27	1	5	Yuan Ping	Chinese Taipei	2:12.38
28	1	2	Lin Yu-An	Chinese Taipei	2:13.99
-	3	8	Charles Francis	Canada	DSQ

The B final was held on August 19, at 19:33.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Masafumi Yamaguchi	Japan	2:00.05
10	5	Sun Hongzhe	United States	2:00.54
11	3	Keith Beavers	Canada	2:00.57
12	6	George Du Rand	South Africa	2:01.26
13	2	Ethan Rolff	Australia	2:03.22
14	8	André Schultz	Brazil	2:05.32
15	7	Jake Tapp	Canada	2:05.47
16	1	John Zulch	New Zealand	2:06.12

The A final was held on August 19, at 19:33.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:54.44	WR
	5	Michael Phelps	United States	1:56.81
	3	Tomomi Morita	Japan	1:58.53
4	6	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:59.33
5	2	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	2:00.52
6	7	Ephraim Hannant	Australia	2:01.05
7	8	Matthew Hawes	Canada	2:01.41
8	1	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	2:03.26