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

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Saanich Commonwealth Place
Dates	August 17, 2006 (heats & finals)
Competitors	33 from 11 nations
Winning time	53.32
Medalists
Aaron Peirsol   United States   Ryan Lochte   United States   Tomomi Morita   Japan

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Aaron Peirsol of US.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.

Records

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	53.17	Indianapolis, United States	April 2, 2005
Pan Pacific Championships record	Lenny Krayzelburg (USA)	53.60	Sydney, Australia	August 27, 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 17, at 10:47.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Ryan Lochte	United States	53.78	QA
2	5	4	Aaron Peirsol	United States	53.88	QA
3	3	4	Randall Bal	United States	54.09	QA
4	4	4	Tomomi Morita	Japan	54.75	QA
5	5	3	Peter Marshall	United States	54.83	QA
6	5	5	Junichi Miyashita	Japan	54.90	QA
7	3	3	David Plummer	United States	55.04	QA
8	4	3	Matt Welsh	Australia	55.14	QA
9	4	2	Ashley Delaney	Australia	55.32	QB
10	4	5	Masafumi Yamaguchi	Japan	55.42	QB
11	5	6	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	55.45	QB
12	4	6	Andrew Lauterstein	Australia	55.56	QB
13	5	7	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	55.69	QB
14	5	2	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	55.72	QB
15	4	7	Sun Hongzhe	United States	56.07	QB
16	3	2	George Du Rand	South Africa	56.13	QB
17	3	6	Ethan Rolff	Australia	56.32
18	5	1	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	56.48
19	4	1	Keng Liat Lim	Malaysia	56.96
20	3	7	Matthew Hawes	Canada	56.99
21	5	8	Jake Tapp	Canada	57.03
22	3	1	Keith Beavers	Canada	57.36
23	4	8	Pascal Wollach	Canada	57.46
24	2	3	Charles Francis	Canada	57.68
25	2	4	Lee Seung-Hyeon	South Korea	57.81
26	1	5	Sun Xiaolei	China	57.94
27	2	7	John Zulch	New Zealand	58.07
28	2	5	Dean Kent	New Zealand	58.86
29	2	2	Feng Lizhong	China	59.35
30	2	6	Yuan Ping	Chinese Taipei	1:00.48
31	3	8	Zhang Yu	China	1:00.60
32	1	4	Lin Yu-An	Chinese Taipei	1:00.97
33	1	3	Bogdan Knezevic	Canada	1:04.01

B Final

The B final was held on August 17, at 19:24.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Randall Bal	United States	53.84
10	5	Masafumi Yamaguchi	Japan	55.06
11	3	Andrew Lauterstein	Australia	55.53
12	1	Jake Tapp	Canada	57.19
13	2	Keng Liat Lim	Malaysia	57.45
14	7	Matthew Hawes	Canada	57.46
15	6	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	57.65
16	8	Lee Seung-Hyeon	South Korea	58.14

A Final

The A final was held on August 17, at 19:24.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Aaron Peirsol	United States	53.32	CR
	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	54.02
	3	Tomomi Morita	Japan	54.38
4	6	Junichi Miyashita	Japan	54.71
5	2	Matt Welsh	Australia	55.12
6	7	Ashley Delaney	Australia	55.43
7	1	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	55.65
8	8	George Du Rand	South Africa	56.55