2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Michael Phelps of US.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle.Swimming technical manual

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record4:08.26Athens, GreeceAugust 14, 2004Pan Pacific Championships record4:12.48Yokohama, JapanAugust 25, 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 18, at 10:58.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Michael Phelps 4:13.62 QA 2 1 4 Robert Margalis 4:14.69 QA 3 2 4 Erik Vendt 4:15.63 QA 4 3 5 Eric Shanteau 4:15.71 QA 5 2 8 Thiago Pereira 4:16.86 QA 6 3 2 Leith Brodie 4:21.65 QA 7 2 5 Hidemasa Sano 4:22.41 QA 8 1 5 Shinya Taniguchi 4:22.95 QA 9 2 2 Lucas Salatta 4:23.46 QB 10 3 3 Travis Nederpelt 4:23.63 QB 11 3 6 Jeremy Knowles 4:26.17 QB 12 2 6 Tobias Oriwol 4:26.87 QB 13 1 2 Jordan Hartney 4:27.66 QB 14 2 3 Dean Kent 4:28.05 QB 15 1 6 David Browne 4:28.46 QB 16 1 7 He Xiaofeng 4:38.23 QB 17 3 8 Benjamin Guzman 4:39.90 18 3 1 Hsu Chi-Chien 4:41.01 19 3 7 Lin Yu-An 4:42.12 20 2 7 Tsai Kuo-Chuan 4:44.00 21 1 1 Bogdan Knezevic 4:44.67 22 2 1 Matthew Pariselli 4:45.13 - 1 3 Brian Johns DSQ

B Final The B final was held on August 18, at 19:28. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 4 Erik Vendt 4:16.72 10 6 Dean Kent 4:21.25 11 5 Tobias Oriwol 4:24.81 12 2 David Browne 4:26.14 13 3 Jordan Hartney 4:31.31 14 7 He Xiaofeng 4:36.07 15 1 Benjamin Guzman 4:42.58 - 8 Hsu Chi-Chien DSQ

A Final The A final was held on August 18, at 19:28. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Michael Phelps 4:10.47 CR 5 Robert Margalis 4:13.85 3 Thiago Pereira 4:18.44 4 1 Travis Nederpelt 4:20.07 5 7 Shinya Taniguchi 4:20.32 6 6 Leith Brodie 4:22.49 7 8 Jeremy Knowles 4:28.07 - 2 Hidemasa Sano DSQ

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