The men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Ian Thorpe of Australia.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record1:44.06Fukuoka, JapanJuly 25, 2001Pan Pacific Championships record1:44.75Yokohama, JapanAugust 26, 2002

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on August 17, at 10:20.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Peter Vanderkaay 1:47.75 QA 2 5 3 Brent Hayden 1:48.12 QA 3 6 5 Zhang Lin 1:48.46 QA 4 6 4 Klete Keller 1:48.47 QA 5 4 5 Park Tae-Hwan 1:48.91 QA 6 5 2 Michael Klueh 1:49.04 QA 7 4 6 Brian Johns 1:49.17 QA 7 6 3 Andrew Hurd 1:49.17 QA 9 5 6 Colin Russell 1:49.34 QB 10 6 6 Kenrick Monk 1:49.44 QB 11 2 7 Leith Brodie 1:49.56 QB 11 4 4 Rick Say 1:49.56 QB 13 5 5 Nicholas Ffrost 1:49.81 QB 14 5 7 Takamitsu Kojima 1:50.15 QB 15 6 2 Yuji Sakurai 1:50.18 QB 16 4 3 Andrew Mewing 1:50.30 QB 17 1 4 Lucas Salatta 1:50.43 18 4 1 Rodrigo Castro 1:50.65 19 4 2 Daisuke Hosokawa 1:50.91 20 6 7 Hisato Matsumoto 1:50.94 21 3 5 Thiago Pereira 1:50.95 22 6 1 Adam Lucas 1:51.04 23 2 4 Hiroaki Yamamoto 1:51.22 24 4 8 Joel Greenshields 1:51.34 25 3 8 Nicolas Oliveira 1:51.35 26 3 4 Robert Voss 1:51.42 27 2 3 Lim Nam-Gyun 1:51.71 28 3 2 Michael Jack 1:52.34 29 4 7 Tobias Oriwol 1:52.96 30 3 7 Raymond Betuzzi 1:53.05 31 3 6 André Schultz 1:53.21 31 5 1 Xin Tong 1:53.21 33 6 8 Ephraim Hannant 1:53.24 34 2 6 Ben Pickersgill-Brown 1:53.44 35 5 8 Andrew McMillan 1:54.68 36 3 2 Cameron Gibson 1:55.29 37 3 5 Dean Kent 1:56.39 38 2 2 Chen Te-Tung 1:57.33 39 2 8 Bryn Murphy 1:57.40 40 3 1 He Xiaofeng 1:57.44 41 1 6 Trent Grimsey 1:57.82 42 1 5 Benjamin Guzman 1:58.92 43 1 3 Kendrick Uy 2:03.73

B Final The B final was held on August 17, at 18:43. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 3 Nicholas Ffrost 1:49.79 10 4 Michael Klueh 1:49.83 11 5 Colin Russell 1:50.14 12 6 Takamitsu Kojima 1:50.16 13 8 Daisuke Hosokawa 1:51.15 14 1 Rodrigo Castro 1:51.27 15 2 Yuji Sakurai 1:51.55 16 7 Lucas Salatta 1:52.06

A Final The A final was held on August 17, at 18:43. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Klete Keller 1:46.20 2 Park Tae-Hwan 1:47.51 3 Zhang Lin 1:47.59 4 5 Brent Hayden 1:47.78 5 4 Peter Vanderkaay 1:48.05 6 1 Kenrick Monk 1:49.12 7 7 Brian Johns 1:49.54 8 8 Leith Brodie 1:50.12

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