# 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 | Aaron Peirsol (USA) | 53.17 | Indianapolis, United States | April 2, 2005 |
| Pan Pacific Championships record | Lenny Krayzelburg (USA) | 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 | United States | 53.78 | QA |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Aaron Peirsol | United States | 53.88 | QA |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Randall Bal | United States | 54.09 | QA |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Tomomi Morita | Japan | 54.75 | QA |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | Peter Marshall | United States | 54.83 | QA |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Junichi Miyashita | Japan | 54.90 | QA |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | David Plummer | United States | 55.04 | QA |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Matt Welsh | Australia | 55.14 | QA |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Ashley Delaney | Australia | 55.32 | QB |
| 10 | 4 | 5 | Masafumi Yamaguchi | Japan | 55.42 | QB |
| 11 | 5 | 6 | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | 55.45 | QB |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Andrew Lauterstein | Australia | 55.56 | QB |
| 13 | 5 | 7 | Hayden Stoeckel | Australia | 55.69 | QB |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Ryosuke Irie | Japan | 55.72 | QB |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Sun Hongzhe | United States | 56.07 | QB |
| 16 | 3 | 2 | George Du Rand | South Africa | 56.13 | QB |
| 17 | 3 | 6 | Ethan Rolff | Australia | 56.32 | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Lucas Salatta | Brazil | 56.48 | |
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Keng Liat Lim | Malaysia | 56.96 | |
| 20 | 3 | 7 | Matthew Hawes | Canada | 56.99 | |
| 21 | 5 | 8 | Jake Tapp | Canada | 57.03 | |
| 22 | 3 | 1 | Keith Beavers | Canada | 57.36 | |
| 23 | 4 | 8 | Pascal Wollach | Canada | 57.46 | |
| 24 | 2 | 3 | Charles Francis | Canada | 57.68 | |
| 25 | 2 | 4 | Lee Seung-Hyeon | South Korea | 57.81 | |
| 26 | 1 | 5 | Sun Xiaolei | China | 57.94 | |
| 27 | 2 | 7 | John Zulch | New Zealand | 58.07 | |
| 28 | 2 | 5 | Dean Kent | New Zealand | 58.86 | |
| 29 | 2 | 2 | Feng Lizhong | China | 59.35 | |
| 30 | 2 | 6 | Yuan Ping | Chinese Taipei | 1:00.48 | |
| 31 | 3 | 8 | Zhang Yu | China | 1:00.60 | |
| 32 | 1 | 4 | Lin Yu-An | Chinese Taipei | 1:00.97 | |
| 33 | 1 | 3 | Bogdan Knezevic | Canada | 1:04.01 | |

### B Final

The B final was held on August 17, at 19:24.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | 4 | Randall Bal | United States | 53.84 |
| 10 | 5 | Masafumi Yamaguchi | Japan | 55.06 |
| 11 | 3 | Andrew Lauterstein | Australia | 55.53 |
| 12 | 1 | Jake Tapp | Canada | 57.19 |
| 13 | 2 | Keng Liat Lim | Malaysia | 57.45 |
| 14 | 7 | Matthew Hawes | Canada | 57.46 |
| 15 | 6 | Lucas Salatta | Brazil | 57.65 |
| 16 | 8 | Lee Seung-Hyeon | South Korea | 58.14 |

### A Final

The A final was held on August 17, at 19:24.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Aaron Peirsol | United States | 53.32 | CR |
| | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 54.02 | |
| | 3 | Tomomi Morita | Japan | 54.38 | |
| 4 | 6 | Junichi Miyashita | Japan | 54.71 | |
| 5 | 2 | Matt Welsh | Australia | 55.12 | |
| 6 | 7 | Ashley Delaney | Australia | 55.43 | |
| 7 | 1 | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | 55.65 | |
| 8 | 8 | George Du Rand | South Africa | 56.55 | |