Pan Pacs: Day 4

The final pool session of Pan Pacs is about to get underway from the Woollett Aquatic Center in Irvine. The Americans have dominated all seven sessions of the meet thus far, and nothing should change in the final one. The big storyline going into tonight: world records. Ryan Lochte has a strong chance in the men's 200 IM, as does Rebecca Soni in the women's 200 breast. John Lohn put up a notebook on Swimming World.com with some nice thoughts headed into tonight.

Final predictions:

Men's 800 Free

1. Ryan Cochrane

2. Chad LaTourette

3. Takeshi Matsuda

Women's 200 IM

1. Ariana Kukors

2. Emily Seebohm

3. Caitlin Leverenz

Men's 200 IM

1. Ryan Lochte

2. Tyler Clary

3. Thiago Pereira

Women's 50 Free

1. Jessica Hardy

2. Yolane Kukla

3. Amanda Weir

Men's 50 Free

1. Cesar Cielo

2. Nathan Adrian

3. Gideon Louw

Women's 200 Breast

1. Rebecca Soni

2. Leisel Jones

3. Amanda Beard

Men's 200 Breast

1. Kosuke Kitajima

2. Eric Shanteau

3. Brenton Rickard

Women's 1,500 Free

1. Kate Ziegler

2. Melissa Gorman

3. Kristel Kobrich

Women's 4x100 Medley Relay

1. United States (Coughlin, Soni, Vollmer, Hardy)

2. Australia (Seebohm, Jones, Coutts, Kukla)

3. Japan (Terakawa, Suzuki, Kato, Ueda)

Men's 4x100 Medley Relay

1. United States (Peirsol, Gangloff, Phelps, Adrian)

2. Japan (Koga, Kitajima, Kishida, Fujii)

3. Australia (Delaney, Sprenger, Huegill, Richardson)

Official prediction contest results headed into the final night of pool racing:

1. David "The Swim Geek" Rieder 264
2. John 251
3. Jerry 245
4. Matt 241
5. Tom 231
6. The Viking 213
7. G. John 196
8. Braden 189
9. Priyant 171
10. Katie 162

This should be the world champs team so far:

Women

100 Free - Natalie Coughlin, Dana Vollmer

200 Free - Allison Schmitt, Dana Vollmer

400 Free - Chloe Sutton, Katie Hoff

800 Free - Kate Ziegler, Chloe Sutton

100 Back - Natalie Coughlin, Liz Pelton

200 Back - Elizabeth Beisel, Missy Franklin

100 Breast - Rebecca Soni, Amanda Beard

100 Fly - Christine Magnuson, Dana Vollmer

200 Fly - Teresa Crippen, Kathleen Hersey

400 IM - Elizabeth Beisel, Caitlin Leverenz

Men

100 Free - Nathan Adrian, Jason Lezak

200 Free - Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps

400 Free - Peter Vanderkaay, Charlie Houchin

1,500 Free - Chad LaTourette, Peter Vanderkaay

100 Back - Aaron Peirsol, David Plummer

200 Back - Ryan Lochte, Tyler Clary

100 Breast - Mark Gangloff, Mike Alexandrov

100 Fly - Michael Phelps, Tyler McGill

200 Fly - Michael Phelps, Tyler Clary

400 IM - Ryan Lochte, Tyler Clary