2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

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{{Infobox swimming event

| event = Women's 400 metre individual medley

| competition = 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

| venue = Saanich Commonwealth Place

| dates = August 18, 2006 (heats &
finals)

| competitors = 23

| nations = 10

| win_value = 4:36.82

| gold = Katie Hoff

| goldNOC = USA

| silver = Ariana Kukors

| silverNOC = USA

| bronze = Stephanie Rice

| bronzeNOC = AUS

| prev = 2002

| next = 2010

}}

{{2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships}}

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place.{{cite web | title = Results of the 400-metre individual medley heats at 2006 Pan Pacific | work = OmegaTiming | date = August 18, 2006 | url = http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000106050014000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01 |accessdate = February 1, 2014}}{{cite web | title = Results of the 400-metre individual medley finals at 2006 Pan Pacific | work = OmegaTiming | date = August 18, 2006 | url = http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010605001B000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01 |accessdate = February 1, 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=2014-02-02 |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 Jennifer Reilly 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 race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle.[http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf |date=July 28, 2011 }}