# 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Kosuke Kitajima of Japan.
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in breaststroke.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
| World record | Brendan Hansen (USA) | 59.13 | Irvine, United States | August 5, 2006 |
| Pan Pacific Championships record | Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) | 1:00.34 | Yokohama, Japan | August 24, 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 18, at 10:33.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Brendan Hansen | United States | 1:00.17 | QA, CR |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 1:00.79 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 1:00.87 | QA |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Scott Usher | United States | 1:01.11 | QA |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | Mark Gangloff | United States | 1:01.80 | QA |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Yuta Suenaga | Japan | 1:01.93 | QA |
| 7 | 3 | 6 | Michael Brown | Canada | 1:01.99 | QA |
| 8 | 1 | 4 | Makoto Yamashita | Japan | 1:02.02 | QA |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | Henrique Barbosa | Brazil | 1:02.36 | QB |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Genki Imamura | Japan | 1:02.45 | QB |
| 11 | 1 | 6 | Scott Dickens | Canada | 1:02.68 | QB |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | William Diering | South Africa | 1:02.80 | QB |
| 13 | 3 | 7 | Daisuke Kimura | Japan | 1:02.99 | QB |
| 14 | 3 | 2 | Mathieu Bois | Canada | 1:03.02 | QB |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | Matthew Lowe | United States | 1:03.17 | QB |
| 16 | 2 | 7 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 1:03.47 | QB |
| 17 | 1 | 7 | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 1:03.68 | |
| 18 | 2 | 2 | Felipe Lima | Brazil | 1:03.94 | |
| 19 | 1 | 2 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 1:04.29 | |
| 20 | 3 | 8 | Sin Su-Jong | South Korea | 1:05.00 | |
| 21 | 2 | 1 | Chiang Hsin-Hung | Chinese Taipei | 1:05.39 | |
| 22 | 1 | 1 | Wang Wei-Wen | Chinese Taipei | 1:05.80 | |
| 23 | 2 | 8 | Bryan Mell | Canada | 1:07.04 | |
| 24 | 1 | 8 | Bogdan Knezevic | Canada | 1:07.21 | |

### B Final

The B final was held on August 18, at 18:46.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | 4 | Mark Gangloff | United States | 1:01.66 |
| 10 | 5 | Makoto Yamashita | Japan | 1:02.14 |
| 11 | 6 | Mathieu Bois | Canada | 1:02.68 |
| 12 | 2 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 1:02.71 |
| 13 | 3 | William Diering | South Africa | 1:02.98 |
| 14 | 7 | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 1:04.18 |
| 15 | 8 | Sin Su-Jong | South Korea | 1:04.40 |
| 16 | 1 | Felipe Lima | Brazil | 1:04.90 |

### A Final

The A final was held on August 18, at 18:46.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Brendan Hansen | United States | 59.90 | CR |
| | 5 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 1:00.39 | |
| | 3 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 1:00.90 | |
| 4 | 6 | Scott Usher | United States | 1:01.39 | |
| 5 | 7 | Michael Brown | Canada | 1:01.58 | |
| 6 | 2 | Yuta Suenaga | Japan | 1:02.16 | |
| 7 | 8 | Scott Dickens | Canada | 1:02.38 | |
| 8 | 1 | Henrique Barbosa | Brazil | 1:02.49 | |