2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates August 20, 2006 (heats &
finals)
Competitors 18 from 7 nations
Winning time 8:24.56
Medalists
 Kate Ziegler   United States
 Ai Shibata   Japan
 Hayley Peirsol   United States

The women's 800 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 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) 8:16.22 Tokyo, Japan August 20, 1989
Pan Pacific Championships record  Janet Evans (USA) 8:16.22 Tokyo, Japan August 20, 1989

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 11:01, and the final was held on August 20, at 18:00.[4][5]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)35Kate Ziegler United States8:24.56
2nd, silver medalist(s)33Ai Shibata Japan8:26.41
3rd, bronze medalist(s)34Hayley Peirsol United States8:27.57
436Sachiko Yamada Japan8:30.29
513Yurie Yano Japan8:34.45
637Brittany Reimer Canada8:37.84
732Melissa Gorman Australia8:37.90
814Kelsey Ditto United States8:38.34
915Linda Mackenzie Australia8:38.61
1038Kristel Köbrich Chile8:40.95
1116Tanya Hunks Canada8:41.43
1211Cecilia Biagioli Argentina8:42.12
1331Stephanie Williams Australia8:44.59
1417Savannah King Canada8:45.21
1524Lee Ji-Eun South Korea8:51.93
1618Kylie Palmer Australia8:53.38
1725Monica Stitski Canada8:56.29
1812Sarah Paton Australia9:02.77

References

  1. ↑ "Results of the 800-metre freestyle timed final at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 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 "800-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "800-metre freestyle "final" at 2006 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
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