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
2006 Pan Pacific
Swimming Championships

Victoria, Canada
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

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]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 3 4 Park Tae-Hwan  South Korea 15:06.11
2nd, silver medalist(s) 3 5 Erik Vendt  United States 15:07.17
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 3 2 Takeshi Matsuda  Japan 15:08.97
4 3 8 Ryan Cochrane  Canada 15:13.44
5 3 7 Peter Vanderkaay  United States 15:16.89
6 1 4 Robert Margalis  United States 15:19.11
7 3 6 Troyden Prinsloo  South Africa 15:19.25
8 1 5 Michael Klueh  United States 15:20.87
9 3 3 Andrew Hurd  Canada 15:23.25
10 3 1 Kenichi Doki  Japan 15:30.55
11 1 8 Kang Yong-Hwan  South Korea 15:32.93
12 1 1 Trent Grimsey  Australia 15:33.31
13 2 4 Bryn Murphy  New Zealand 15:33.55
14 1 6 Gen Ishimura  Japan 15:35.43
15 2 1 Armando Negreiros  Brazil 15:38.66
16 1 2 Cameron Smith  Australia 15:43.98
17 2 5 Kier Maitland  Canada 15:46.91
18 1 3 Kurtis MacGillivary  Australia 16:01.28
19 2 3 He Xiaofeng  China 16:03.87
20 2 6 Tang Sheng-Chieh  Chinese Taipei 16:06.77
21 2 2 Matthew Pariselli  Canada 16:10.05
22 2 7 Pan Kevin-Owen  Chinese Taipei 16:13.11
- 1 7 Fran Crippen  United States DSQ

References

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