Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
historyThe Pan Pacific Swimming Championships is a long course swimming event first held in 1985. The meeting was initially staged biennially, however from 2002 became a quadrennial event. Participating nations include the four Charter nations: Canada, the United States, Australia and Japan. In addition, several other non-European countries are invited to participate including South Korea, China, New Zealand and Brazil. The meet is considered to be one of the toughest international swimming competitions outside of the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, due in part to the presence of swimming power-house nationals like Australia and the United States. The meet was last held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 2006.
Unlike the World Championships and Olympic Games, nations can enter as many people as they like in the preliminaries of each event (in most international meets, only two swimmers from each nation are permitted). However, only two swimmers per nation can qualify for the Pan Pacific Championships' semi-finals and finals.
List of championships
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|1985 || 1st Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Tokyo, Japan
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|1987 || 2nd Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Brisbane, Australia
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|1989 || 3rd Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Tokyo, Japan
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|1991 || 4th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Edmonton, Canada
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|1993 || 5th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Kobe, Japan
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|1995 || 6th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Atlanta, USA
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|1997 || 7th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Fukuoka, Japan
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|1999 || 8th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Sydney, Australia
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|2002 || 9th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Yokohama, Japan
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|2006 || 10th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Victoria, Canada
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|2010 || 11th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships || Irvine, United States
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