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.^[1][2] The last champion was Brooke Bennett of US, in 1997. This event wasn't held in 1999.^[3]

Women's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Yokohama International Swimming Pool
Dates	August 24, 2002 (heats & finals)
Competitors	8 from 6 nations
Winning time	16:07.86
Medalists
Diana Munz    United States   Sachiko Yamada    Japan   Morgan Hentzen    United States
← 1997 2006 →

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 record	Janet Evans (USA)	15:52.10	Orlando, United States	March 26, 1988
Pan Pacific Championships record	Hayley Lewis (AUS)	16:04.84	Kobe, Japan	August 12, 1993

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

CR

Championships record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Diana Munz	United States	16:07.86
	3	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	16:16.28
	7	Morgan Hentzen	United States	16:29.25
4	6	Nayara Ribeiro	Brazil	16:33.82
5	2	Ai Shibata	Japan	16:33.86
6	1	Taryn Lencoe	Canada	16:42.82
7	5	Amanda Pascoe	Australia	16:46.84
8	8	Rebecca Linton	New Zealand	17:18.92

References

1. "Results of the 2002 Pan Pacific". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). June 4, 2006. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
2. 2002 Pan Pacific held in Yokohama International Swimming Pool
3. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine