2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle
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.
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 record | 1:44.06 | Fukuoka, Japan | July 25, 2001 | |
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 1:44.75 | Yokohama, Japan | August 26, 2002 |
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 10:20.| 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 |