2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
Dates	August 20, 2010 (heats &; finals)
Competitors	33 from 11 nations
Winning time	3:44.73
Medalists
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The men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.^[1]^[2]^[3] The last champion was Park Tae-Hwan of South Korea.^[4]^[5]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.^[6]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	July 26, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	3:41.83	Sydney, Australia	August 22, 1999

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

The first round was held on August 20, at 10:24.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	3:47.58	QA
2	4	4	Zhang Lin	China	3:47.80	QA
3	4	6	Charlie Houchin	United States	3:48.00	QA
4	3	5	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	3:48.39	QA
5	5	6	Michael Klueh	United States	3:48.85	QA
6	3	3	Ryan Napoleon	Australia	3:49.03	QA
7	4	2	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	3:49.69	QA
8	5	3	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	3:49.89	QA
9	3	4	Robert Hurley	Australia	3:50.02	QB
10	3	6	Chad La Tourette	United States	3:50.61	QB
11	5	2	Junpei Higashi	Japan	3:50.82	QB
12	4	5	Sho Uchida	Japan	3:51.30	QB
13	3	2	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	3:52.14	QB
14	4	3	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	3:53.42	QB
15	2	4	Hassaan Khalik	Canada	3:53.45	QB
16	1	3	Kenrick Monk	Australia	3:53.53	QB
17	3	7	Mark Randall	South Africa	3:53.81
18	5	5	Jean Basson	South Africa	3:53.90
19	5	1	Sean Ryan	United States	3:55.87
20	4	7	Sangjin Jang	South Korea	3:56.27
21	5	7	Yohsuke Miyamoto	Japan	3:56.62
22	2	2	Sean Penhale	Canada	3:56.63
23	2	6	Juan Martin Pereyra	Argentina	3:56.81
24	3	8	Blake Worsley	Canada	3:57.47
25	4	8	Kier Maitland	Canada	3:57.48
26	1	5	George O'Brien	Australia	3:59.39
27	3	1	Lucas Kanieski	Brazil	3:59.48
28	2	1	Yonghwan Kang	South Korea	3:59.94
29	2	3	Sebastian Jahnsen	Peru	4:00.26
30	4	1	Esteban Paz	Argentina	4:00.36
31	2	5	Joonmo Bae	South Korea	4:01.90
32	2	7	Leonardo Fim	Brazil	4:03.74
33	1	4	Christopher Ashwood	Australia	4:03.80
-	5	8	Stefan Hirniak	Canada	DNS

The B final was held on August 20, at 18:22.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Michael Klueh	United States	3:50.36
10	5	Sho Uchida	Japan	3:51.02
11	6	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	3:51.37
12	1	Jean Basson	South Africa	3:51.38
13	3	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	3:51.61
14	7	Mark Randall	South Africa	3:51.70
15	8	Sangjin Jang	South Korea	3:55.96
16	2	Hassaan Khalik	Canada	3:58.15

The A final was held on August 20, at 18:22.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	3:44.73
	2	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	3:46.78
	5	Zhang Lin	China	3:46.91
4	6	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	3:47.11
5	3	Charlie Houchin	United States	3:47.98
6	7	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	3:49.10
7	1	Robert Hurley	Australia	3:49.36
8	8	Junpei Higashi	Japan	3:51.90