2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates August 20, 2006 (heats &
finals)
Competitors 22 from 10 nations
Winning time 15:06.11
Medalists
    South Korea
    United States
    Japan

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.[1][2] The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia.[3]

This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. The top 8 seeded swimmers swam in the evening, and the remaining swimmers swam in the morning session.[4][5]

Records

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

World record  Grant Hackett (AUS) 14:34.56 Fukuoka, Japan July 29, 2001
Pan Pacific Championships record  Grant Hackett (AUS) 14:41.65 Yokohama, Japan August 28, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified CRChampionships record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

The first round was held on August 20, at 11:21, and the final was held on August 20, at 20:05.[4][5]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)34Park Tae-Hwan South Korea15:06.11
2nd, silver medalist(s)35Erik Vendt United States15:07.17
3rd, bronze medalist(s)32Takeshi Matsuda Japan15:08.97
438Ryan Cochrane Canada15:13.44
537Peter Vanderkaay United States15:16.89
614Robert Margalis United States15:19.11
736Troyden Prinsloo South Africa15:19.25
815Michael Klueh United States15:20.87
933Andrew Hurd Canada15:23.25
1031Kenichi Doki Japan15:30.55
1118Kang Yong-Hwan South Korea15:32.93
1211Trent Grimsey Australia15:33.31
1324Bryn Murphy New Zealand15:33.55
1416Gen Ishimura Japan15:35.43
1521Armando Negreiros Brazil15:38.66
1612Cameron Smith Australia15:43.98
1725Kier Maitland Canada15:46.91
1813Kurtis MacGillivary Australia16:01.28
1923He Xiaofeng China16:03.87
2026Tang Sheng-Chieh Chinese Taipei16:06.77
2122Matthew Pariselli Canada16:10.05
2227Pan Kevin-Owen Chinese Taipei16:13.11
-17Fran Crippen United StatesDSQ

References

  1. "Results of the 1500-metre freestyle timed final at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
  2. 2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria
  3. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. 1 2 "1500-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "1500-metre freestyle "final" at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
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