2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke
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 | 53.17 | Indianapolis, United States | April 2, 2005 | |
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 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 | 53.78 | QA | |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Aaron Peirsol | 53.88 | QA | |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Randall Bal | 54.09 | QA | |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Tomomi Morita | 54.75 | QA | |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | Peter Marshall | 54.83 | QA | |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Junichi Miyashita | 54.90 | QA | |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | David Plummer | 55.04 | QA | |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Matt Welsh | 55.14 | QA | |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Ashley Delaney | 55.32 | QB | |
| 10 | 4 | 5 | Masafumi Yamaguchi | 55.42 | QB | |
| 11 | 5 | 6 | Gerhard Zandberg | 55.45 | QB | |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Andrew Lauterstein | 55.56 | QB | |
| 13 | 5 | 7 | Hayden Stoeckel | 55.69 | QB | |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Ryosuke Irie | 55.72 | QB | |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Sun Hongzhe | 56.07 | QB | |
| 16 | 3 | 2 | George Du Rand | 56.13 | QB | |
| 17 | 3 | 6 | Ethan Rolff | 56.32 | ||
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Lucas Salatta | 56.48 | ||
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Keng Liat Lim | 56.96 | ||
| 20 | 3 | 7 | Matthew Hawes | 56.99 | ||
| 21 | 5 | 8 | Jake Tapp | 57.03 | ||
| 22 | 3 | 1 | Keith Beavers | 57.36 | ||
| 23 | 4 | 8 | Pascal Wollach | 57.46 | ||
| 24 | 2 | 3 | Charles Francis | 57.68 | ||
| 25 | 2 | 4 | Lee Seung-Hyeon | 57.81 | ||
| 26 | 1 | 5 | Sun Xiaolei | 57.94 | ||
| 27 | 2 | 7 | John Zulch | 58.07 | ||
| 28 | 2 | 5 | Dean Kent | 58.86 | ||
| 29 | 2 | 2 | Feng Lizhong | 59.35 | ||
| 30 | 2 | 6 | Yuan Ping | 1:00.48 | ||
| 31 | 3 | 8 | Zhang Yu | 1:00.60 | ||
| 32 | 1 | 4 | Lin Yu-An | 1:00.97 | ||
| 33 | 1 | 3 | Bogdan Knezevic | 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 | 53.84 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Masafumi Yamaguchi | 55.06 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Andrew Lauterstein | 55.53 | ||
| 12 | 1 | Jake Tapp | 57.19 | ||
| 13 | 2 | Keng Liat Lim | 57.45 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Matthew Hawes | 57.46 | ||
| 15 | 6 | Lucas Salatta | 57.65 | ||
| 16 | 8 | Lee Seung-Hyeon | 58.14 |
A Final
The A final was held on August 17, at 19:24.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 5 | Aaron Peirsol | 53.32 | CR | ||
| 4 | Ryan Lochte | 54.02 | |||
| 3 | Tomomi Morita | 54.38 | |||
| 4 | 6 | Junichi Miyashita | 54.71 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Matt Welsh | 55.12 | ||
| 6 | 7 | Ashley Delaney | 55.43 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Gerhard Zandberg | 55.65 | ||
| 8 | 8 | George Du Rand | 56.55 |