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

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{{Infobox swimming event

| event = Men's 800 metre freestyle

| competition = 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

| venue = Saanich Commonwealth Place
Saanich, British Columbia, Canada

| dates = August 17, 2006 (heats &
finals)

| competitors = 18

| nations = 8

| win_value = 7:55.88

| gold = Andrew Hurd

| goldNOC = CAN

| silver = Troyden Prinsloo

| silverNOC = RSA

| bronze = Ryan Cochrane

| bronzeNOC = CAN

| prev = 2002

| next = 2010

}}

{{2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships}}

The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.{{cite web | title = Results of the 800-metre freestyle timed final at 2006 Pan Pacific | work = OmegaTiming | date = August 17, 2006 | url = http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000106050008000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01 |accessdate = January 18, 2014}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.swimvortex.com/2006-pan-pacific-swimming-championships-to-be-held-in-victoria-bc/ |title=2006 Pan Pacific held in Victoria |access-date=2014-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107014441/http://www.swimvortex.com/2006-pan-pacific-swimming-championships-to-be-held-in-victoria-bc/ |archive-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead }} The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia.[http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010202854/http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf |date=2014-10-10 }}

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.{{cite web | title = 800-metre freestyle heats at 2006 Pan Pacific | work = OmegaTiming | date = August 17, 2006 | url = http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000106050007000000FFFFFFFFFFFF00 |accessdate = January 18, 2014}}{{cite web | title = 800-metre freestyle "final" at 2006 Pan Pacific | work = OmegaTiming | date = August 17, 2006 | url = http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000106050008000000FFFFFFFFFFFF00 |accessdate = January 18, 2014}}