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

Women's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates August 17, 2006 (heats &
finals)
Competitors 12 from 5 nations
Winning time 15:55.01
Medalists
 Kate Ziegler   United States
 Hayley Peirsol   United States
 Ai Shibata   Japan

The women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.[1][2] The last champion was Diana Munz of US.[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  Janet Evans (USA) 15:52.10 Orlando, United States March 26, 1988
Pan Pacific Championships record  Hayley Lewis (AUS) 16:04.84 Kobe, Japan August 12, 1992

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 17, at 11:12, and the final was held on August 17, at 20:14.[4][5]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)24Kate Ziegler United States15:51.01CR
2nd, silver medalist(s)25Hayley Peirsol United States15:57.36
3rd, bronze medalist(s)22Ai Shibata Japan16:11.13
421Kristel Köbrich Chile16:25.85
523Sachiko Yamada Japan16:28.47
626Melissa Gorman Australia16:29.10
714Kelsey Ditto United States16:31.95
828Savannah King Canada16:46.38
927Sarah Paton Australia16:55.97
1015Monica Stitski Canada17:04.78
1116Lauren Arndt Australia17:16.93
1213Melissa Benson Australia17:43.09

References

  1. ↑ "Results of the 1500-metre freestyle timed final at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 17, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 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 17, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "1500-metre freestyle "final" at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 17, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
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