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

The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.^[1][2][3] The last champion was Kosuke Kitajima of Japan.^[4]

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 18, 2006 (heats & finals)
Competitors	24 from 9 nations
Winning time	59.90
Medalists
Brendan Hansen    United States   Brenton Rickard    Australia   Kosuke Kitajima    Japan
← 2002 2010 →

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in breaststroke.^[5]

Records

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

World record	Brendan Hansen (USA)	59.13	Irvine, United States	August 5, 2006
Pan Pacific Championships record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	1:00.34	Yokohama, Japan	August 24, 2002

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 10:33.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Brendan Hansen	United States	1:00.17	QA, CR
2	2	5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	1:00.79	QA
3	2	4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	1:00.87	QA
4	1	5	Scott Usher	United States	1:01.11	QA
5	3	5	Mark Gangloff	United States	1:01.80	QA
6	2	6	Yuta Suenaga	Japan	1:01.93	QA
7	3	6	Michael Brown	Canada	1:01.99	QA
8	1	4	Makoto Yamashita	Japan	1:02.02	QA
9	1	3	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	1:02.36	QB
10	2	3	Genki Imamura	Japan	1:02.45	QB
11	1	6	Scott Dickens	Canada	1:02.68	QB
12	3	1	William Diering	South Africa	1:02.80	QB
13	3	7	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	1:02.99	QB
14	3	2	Mathieu Bois	Canada	1:03.02	QB
15	3	3	Matthew Lowe	United States	1:03.17	QB
16	2	7	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	1:03.47	QB
17	1	7	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	1:03.68
18	2	2	Felipe Lima	Brazil	1:03.94
19	1	2	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	1:04.29
20	3	8	Sin Su-Jong	South Korea	1:05.00
21	2	1	Chiang Hsin-Hung	Chinese Taipei	1:05.39
22	1	1	Wang Wei-Wen	Chinese Taipei	1:05.80
23	2	8	Bryan Mell	Canada	1:07.04
24	1	8	Bogdan Knezevic	Canada	1:07.21

B Final

The B final was held on August 18, at 18:46.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Mark Gangloff	United States	1:01.66
10	5	Makoto Yamashita	Japan	1:02.14
11	6	Mathieu Bois	Canada	1:02.68
12	2	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	1:02.71
13	3	William Diering	South Africa	1:02.98
14	7	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	1:04.18
15	8	Sin Su-Jong	South Korea	1:04.40
16	1	Felipe Lima	Brazil	1:04.90

A Final

The A final was held on August 18, at 18:46.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Brendan Hansen	United States	59.90	CR
	5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	1:00.39
	3	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	1:00.90
4	6	Scott Usher	United States	1:01.39
5	7	Michael Brown	Canada	1:01.58
6	2	Yuta Suenaga	Japan	1:02.16
7	8	Scott Dickens	Canada	1:02.38
8	1	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	1:02.49