2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Women's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 20, 2006 (heats &; finals)
Competitors	26 from 11 nations
Winning time	2:10.11
Medalists
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The women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^[1]^[2]^[3] The last champion was Tomoko Hagiwara of Japan.^[4]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.^[5]

Records

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

World record	Wu Yanyan (CHN)	2:09.72	Shanghai, China	October 17, 1997
Pan Pacific Championships record	Allison Wagner (USA)	2:12.54	Kobe, Japan	August 15, 1993

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 20, at 10:00.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katie Hoff	United States	2:12.45	QA, CR
2	3	4	Whitney Myers	United States	2:12.85	QA
3	4	5	Ariana Kukors	United States	2:13.26	QA
4	3	7	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:15.75	QA
5	2	4	Stephanie Rice	Australia	2:16.38	QA
6	4	1	Kathleen Hersey	United States	2:16.88	QA
7	2	6	Ashleigh McCleery	Australia	2:16.90	QA
8	3	3	Maiko Fujino	Japan	2:17.05	QA
9	3	5	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:17.52	QB
10	3	2	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:17.92	QB
11	4	2	Teresa Crippen	United States	2:17.95	QB
11	4	8	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	2:17.95	QB
13	2	3	Jung Ji-Yeon	South Korea	2:18.06	QB
14	4	6	Shayne Reese	Australia	2:18.09	QB
15	1	5	Mary Descenza	United States	2:18.27	QB
16	3	1	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:18.28	QB
17	4	3	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:18.35
18	2	5	Liu Jing	China	2:18.81
19	2	1	Izumi Kato	Japan	2:18.89
20	2	7	Stephanie Horner	Canada	2:19.03
21	1	4	Chen Huijia	China	2:19.14
22	4	7	Xia Chenying	China	2:19.95
23	1	3	Tsai Hiu Wai	Hong Kong	2:20.49
24	2	8	Kristen Bradley	Canada	2:20.80
25	3	8	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:20.95
26	2	2	Jennifer Reilly	Australia	2:22.01
-	3	6	Kristen Caverly	United States	DSQ

The B final was held on August 20, at 18:14.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Ariana Kukors	United States	2:12.22
10	3	Shayne Reese	Australia	2:15.06
11	5	Jung Ji-Yeon	South Korea	2:17.14
12	8	Stephanie Horner	Canada	2:18.04
13	1	Izumi Kato	Japan	2:18.72
14	6	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:18.73
15	7	Liu Jing	China	2:18.91
16	2	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:19.27

The A final was held on August 20, at 18:14.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Whitney Myers	United States	2:10.11	CR
	4	Katie Hoff	United States	2:11.51
	6	Stephanie Rice	Australia	2:13.21
4	3	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:14.27
5	7	Maiko Fujino	Japan	2:16.64
6	2	Ashleigh McCleery	Australia	2:16.75
7	8	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	2:16.92
8	1	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:17.49