Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle


The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 18 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada. The defending Pan American Games champion was Kristel Kobrich of Chile.
This race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool in freestyle. All participating swimmers would take part in 2 heats based on qualifying time. There were no finals.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
World record8:11.00Shenandoah, United StatesJune 22, 2014
Pan American Games record8:34.65Winnipeg, CanadaAugust 6, 1999

The following new records were set during this competition.
DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
15 July[|Final]Sierra Schmidt8:27.54GR

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard in the qualifying period. NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard in the same qualifying period. All other competing athletes were entered as universality spots.

Schedule

All times are Eastern Time Zone.
DateTimeRound
July 18, 201510:05Final 1
July 18, 201519:05Final 2

Results

Final

The finals were held on July 18.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
22Sierra Schmidt8:27.54GR
27Kristel Köbrich8:29.79
25Andreina Pinto8:31.08
24Brittany MacLean8:32.06
21Joanna Evans8:37.18
23Courtney Harnish8:38.00
15Bruna Primati8:40.75
13Monserrat Ortuño8:45.81
28Carolina Bilich8:47.94
1026Tabitha Baumann8:48.37
1114Natalia Jaspeado8:53.70
1216Valerie Gruest8:55.62
1312Maria Alvarez8:57.29
1418Rebeca Quinteros9:07.98
1517Daniella van den Berg9:12.30
1611Lani Cabrera9:16.88