The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. The top 8 seeded swimmers swam in the evening, and the remaining swimmers swam in the morning session.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record14:34.56Fukuoka, JapanJuly 29, 2001Pan Pacific Championships record14:41.65Yokohama, JapanAugust 28, 2002
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
The first round was held on August 20, at 11:21, and the final was held on August 20, at 20:05.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 4 Park Tae-Hwan 15:06.11 3 5 Erik Vendt 15:07.17 3 2 Takeshi Matsuda 15:08.97 4 3 8 Ryan Cochrane 15:13.44 5 3 7 Peter Vanderkaay 15:16.89 6 1 4 Robert Margalis 15:19.11 7 3 6 Troyden Prinsloo 15:19.25 8 1 5 Michael Klueh 15:20.87 9 3 3 Andrew Hurd 15:23.25 10 3 1 Kenichi Doki 15:30.55 11 1 8 Kang Yong-Hwan 15:32.93 12 1 1 Trent Grimsey 15:33.31 13 2 4 Bryn Murphy 15:33.55 14 1 6 Gen Ishimura 15:35.43 15 2 1 Armando Negreiros 15:38.66 16 1 2 Cameron Smith 15:43.98 17 2 5 Kier Maitland 15:46.91 18 1 3 Kurtis MacGillivary 16:01.28 19 2 3 He Xiaofeng 16:03.87 20 2 6 Tang Sheng-Chieh 16:06.77 21 2 2 Matthew Pariselli 16:10.05 22 2 7 Pan Kevin-Owen 16:13.11 - 1 7 Fran Crippen DSQ
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