2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 18, 2006 (heats & finals)
Competitors	20 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:07.56
Medalists
Tara Kirk   United States   Megan Jendrick   United States   Sarah Katsoulis   Australia

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Amanda Beard of US.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in breaststroke.

Records

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

World record	Leisel Jones (AUS)	1:05.09	Melbourne, Australia	March 20, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record	Penny Heyns (RSA)	1:06.52	Sydney, Australia	August 26, 1999

Results

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

Heats

The first round was held on August 18, at 10:27.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Tara Kirk	United States	1:07.05	QA
2	1	4	Megan Jendrick	United States	1:07.09	QA
3	3	4	Jessica Hardy	United States	1:07.12	QA
4	3	3	Sarah Katsoulis	Australia	1:08.67	QA
5	3	5	Suzaan Van Biljon	South Africa	1:09.93	QA
6	2	5	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	1:09.67	QA
7	1	5	Yoshimi Miwa	Japan	1:10.34	QA
8	2	6	Lisa Blackburn	Canada	1:10.43	?
8	3	6	Jillian Tyler	Canada	1:10.43	?
10	3	2	Jung Seul-Ki	South Korea	1:10.50	QB
11	2	2	Back Su-Yeon	South Korea	1:11.05	QB
12	2	7	Chelsey Salli	Canada	1:11.49	QB
13	1	7	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	1:11.72	QB
14	1	6	Annabelle Carey	New Zealand	1:11.76	QB
15	3	7	Helen Pitchik	Canada	1:11.87	QB
16	1	3	Chen Huijia	China	1:12.20	QB
17	2	3	Sun Ye	China	1:12.41
18	1	2	Kathleen Stoody	Canada	1:13.24
19	2	1	Suen Ka Yi	Hong Kong	1:14.72
20	3	1	Lin Ting-Wei	Chinese Taipei	1:16.14

B Final

The B final was held on August 18, at 18:34.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Jessica Hardy	United States	1:06.43	CR
10	5	Jung Seul-Ki	South Korea	1:10.03
11	3	Back Su-Yeon	South Korea	1:10.51
12	7	Annabelle Carey	New Zealand	1:10.66
13	6	Chelsey Salli	Canada	1:11.58
14	2	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	1:11.70
15	1	Chen Huijia	China	1:11.87
16	8	Sun Ye	China	1:12.06

A Final

The A final was held on August 18, at 18:34.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Tara Kirk	United States	1:07.56
	5	Megan Jendrick	United States	1:07.58
	3	Sarah Katsoulis	Australia	1:08.12
4	6	Suzaan Van Biljon	South Africa	1:08.47
5	2	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	1:09.70
6	7	Yoshimi Miwa	Japan	1:09.89
7	8	Jillian Tyler	Canada	1:10.19
8	1	Lisa Blackburn	Canada	1:10.37