2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 19, 2006 (heats & finals)
Competitors	28 from 11 nations
Winning time	4:07.61
Medalists
Ai Shibata   Japan   Katie Hoff   United States   Sachiko Yamada   Japan

The women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Diana Munz of US.

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.

Records

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

World record	Laure Manaudou (FRA)	4:02.13	Budapest, Hungary	August 6, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:04.53	Tokyo, Japan	August 19, 1989

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 19, at 10:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:09.55	QA
2	3	4	Katie Hoff	United States	4:09.70	QA
3	4	4	Kate Ziegler	United States	4:10.94	QA
4	4	5	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:11.04	QA
5	4	3	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:11.22	QA
6	4	6	Kelsey Ditto	United States	4:12.04	QA
7	2	5	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:12.10	QA
8	2	4	Hayley Peirsol	United States	4:12.34	QA
9	2	2	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	4:13.54	QB
10	3	3	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:13.72	QB
11	4	7	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:13.95	QB
12	2	3	Ashleigh McCleery	Australia	4:14.90	QB
13	4	2	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:14.92	QB
14	2	1	Tanya Hunks	Canada	4:15.00	QB
15	4	1	Melissa Gorman	Australia	4:15.34	QB
16	1	6	Savannah King	Canada	4:17.03	QB
17	3	6	Stephanie Williams	Australia	4:17.86
18	1	4	Maya Beaudry	Canada	4:18.73
19	3	8	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	4:18.74
20	2	7	Lee Ji-Eun	South Korea	4:20.07
21	1	5	Xia Chenying	China	4:20.75
22	1	2	Haruka Ueda	Japan	4:21.09
23	3	1	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	4:21.30
24	1	3	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	4:22.43
25	4	8	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	4:23.75
26	3	2	Sarah Paton	Australia	4:24.01
27	2	6	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	4:25.39
28	1	7	Lauren Arndt	Australia	4:28.72
-	3	7	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	DSQ

B Final

The B final was held on August 19, at 18:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Kylie Palmer	Australia	4:09.68
10	4	Kelsey Ditto	United States	4:12.11
11	3	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:12.84
12	6	Tanya Hunks	Canada	4:16.64
13	7	Lee Ji-Eun	South Korea	4:16.91
14	1	Xia Chenying	China	4:18.63
15	2	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	4:20.11
16	8	Haruka Ueda	Japan	4:22.69

A Final

The A final was held on August 19, at 18:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.61
	5	Katie Hoff	United States	4:07.98
	2	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:08.42
4	3	Kate Ziegler	United States	4:08.47
5	4	Bronte Barratt	Australia	4:08.68
6	7	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:09.95
7	8	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:12.45
8	1	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	4:13.38