2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle


The women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool. The last champion was Brooke Bennett of US, in 1997. This event wasn't held in 1999.
This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
World record15:52.10Orlando, United StatesMarch 26, 1988
Pan Pacific Championships record16:04.84Kobe, JapanAugust 12, 1993

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Diana Munz16:07.86
3Sachiko Yamada16:16.28
7Morgan Hentzen16:29.25
46Nayara Ribeiro16:33.82
52Ai Shibata16:33.86
61Taryn Lencoe16:42.82
75Amanda Pascoe16:46.84
88Rebecca Linton17:18.92