The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Hansen shatters own world record at Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
08.20.2006 | Men's Swimming and Diving
VICTORIA, British Columbia -- A former University of Texas swimmer rewrote his own world record for the second time in as many nights Sunday evening at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships at the Saanich Commonwealth Place Pool.
Former Longhorn Brendan Hansen, who broke his own 100- and 200-meter breaststroke world records earlier this month at the 2006 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships, broke his 200-meter breaststroke world record once again on Sunday. Hansen touched the wall in 2 minutes, 8.50 seconds, topping his previous world-record time of 2:08.74 set on Aug. 5 in Irvine, Calif.
Notably, Hansen's record-breaking swim marks the fifth occasion this month that a former Longhorn has broken a world record either single-handedly or as part of a relay. On Saturday, Aug. 19, Aaron Peirsol broke his own 200-meter backstroke world record at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, and Neil Walker helped add another world record for Team USA by swimming the second leg of the 4x100-meter freestyle relay.
Also Sunday evening, Hansen and Peirsol teamed up with former UT All-American Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak to help Team USA to gold in the 4x100-meter medley relay. Peirsol swam the opening backstroke leg before giving way to Hansen at breaststroke. Crocker followed in the butterfly before Lezak closed out the victory for the Americans with a meet-record time of 3:31.79. The second-place team from Japan finished nearly four seconds behind the American team comprised almost entirely of Longhorns.
UT sophomore Michael Klueh (Evansville, Ind.) finished second in his 1500-meter freestyle heat, clocking 15:20.87.
