2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 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 record7:38.65Montreal, Quebec, CanadaJuly 27, 2005Pan Pacific Championships record7:44.78Yokohama, JapanAugust 24, 2002

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

The first round was held on August 17, at 11:30, and the final was held on August 17, at 18:15.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 5 Andrew Hurd 7:55.88 3 4 Troyden Prinsloo 7:56.82 3 7 Ryan Cochrane 7:58.32 4 3 8 Kenichi Doki 8:02.15 5 3 1 Chip Peterson 8:05.07 6 3 3 Fran Crippen 8:06.32 7 1 6 Felipe May Araújo 8:07.13 8 3 6 Cameron Smith 8:08.15 9 1 1 Armando Negreiros 8:09.27 10 1 7 Bryn Murphy 8:11.52 11 1 5 Gen Ishimura 8:12.31 12 1 3 Ky Hurst 8:13.50 13 3 2 Trent Grimsey 8:14.82 14 1 2 Kier Maitland 8:17.12 15 2 4 Tang Sheng-Chieh 8:22.34 16 2 5 David Browne 8:25.46 17 1 4 Kurtis MacGillivary 8:26.86 18 2 3 Matthew Pariselli 8:31.01

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