Photo Courtesy: Peter H.Bick
Editorial coverage for the Pan Pacific Championships is proudly sponsored byMaster Spas! For complete coverage of the Pan Pacific Championships, check out our event landing page.
GOLD COAST, Australia, August 21. SHE’s been looking to score a big head-to-head victory against Missy Franklin, and she finally got it as Australia’s Emily Seebohm took advantage of a bit of a wounded Franklin to scorch the Pan Pacs 100-meter back finale in 58.84. That’s an Australian All-Comers and Pan Pacs record.
Her previous world-leading time from the Australian Nationals of 58.92 had been the All-Comers record, while Seebohm also took down her meet record of 59.34 from this event in 2010. That’s a successful title defense for Seebohm.
Japan’s Sayaka Akase (1:00.65), Canada’s Dominique Bouchard (1:00.82), Canada’s Hilary Caldwell (1:00.99), USA’s Elizabeth Pelton (1:01.37) and Japan’s Miyuki Takemura (1:01.88) also competed in the championship heat.
A Final Results
1 SEEBOHM, EMILY 22 AUSTRALIA 59.72 58.84! 963 r:+0.66 28.54 58.84 (30.30) 2 HOCKING, BELIND 23 AUSTRALIA 1:00.46 59.78 918 r:+0.58 29.60 59.78 (30.18) 3 FRANKLIN, MISSY 19 UNITED STATES 1:00.60 1:00.30 895 r:+0.71 29.74 1:00.30 (30.56) 4 AKASE, SAYAKA 19 JAPAN 1:01.72 1:00.65 880 r:+0.61 29.55 1:00.65 (31.10) 5 BOUCHARD, DOMIN 23 CANADA 1:01.10 1:00.82 872 r:+0.72 29.64 1:00.82 (31.18) 6 CALDWELL, HILAR 23 CANADA 1:01.34 1:00.99 865 r:+0.61 29.88 1:00.99 (31.11) 7 PELTON, ELIZABE 20 UNITED STATES 1:01.05 1:01.37 849 r:+0.69 30.02 1:01.37 (31.35) 8 TAKEMURA, MIYUK 25 JAPAN 1:01.54 1:01.88 828 r:+0.53 29.83 1:01.88 (32.05)
Australia had a huge showing in the race as Belinda Hocking took second in 59.78 to tie her seventh-ranked time from Commonwealth Games, while Franklin settled for bronze in 1:00.30. She just could not duplicate her third-ranked 59.38 from U.S. Nationals after battling back spasms the past day.
USA’s Kathleen Baker had a strong consolation heat as she won in 1:00.35. Canada’s Brooklyn Snodgrass placed second in 1:00.57 with Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros placing third in 1:00.82.
Japan’s Shiho Sakai (1:01.86), China’s Zhao Ying (1:02.88), Hong Kong’s Claudia Lau (1:03.43), South Africa’s Marce Loubser (1:04.95) and South Africa’s Beatrix Malan (1:05.66) comprised the rest of the B final field.
B Final Results
9 BAKER, KATHLEEN 17 UNITED STATES 1:01.09 1:00.35 893 r:+0.66 29.23 1:00.35 (31.12) 10 SNODGRASS, BROO 20 CANADA 1:01.54 1:00.57 883 r:+0.67 29.48 1:00.57 (31.09) 11 MEDEIROS, ETIEN 23 BRAZIL 1:01.81 1:00.82 872 r:+0.60 29.85 1:00.82 (30.97) 12 SAKAI, SHIHO 23 JAPAN 1:01.86 1:01.86 829 r:+0.58 29.93 1:01.86 (31.93) 13 ZHAO, YING 18 CHINA 1:02.99 1:02.88 789 r:+0.69 30.45 1:02.88 (32.43) 14 LAU, CLAUDIA 21 HONG KONG 1:04.12 1:03.43 769 r:+0.64 30.82 1:03.43 (32.61) 15 LOUBSER, MARCE 18 SOUTH AFRICA 1:05.37 1:04.95 716 r:+0.67 30.98 1:04.95 (33.97) 16 MALAN, BEATRIX 18 SOUTH AFRICA 1:06.22 1:05.66 693 r:+0.65 31.60 1:05.66 (34.06)
