2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Yokohama International Swimming Pool
Dates	August 28, 2002 (heats & finals)
Competitors	14 from 6 nations
Winning time	8:30.45
Medalists
Diana Munz    United States   Sachiko Yamada    Japan   Hayley Peirsol    United States

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 28 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.[1][2] The last champion was Brooke Bennett of US.[3]

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)	8:16.22	Tokyo, Japan	August 20, 1989
Pan Pacific Championships record	Janet Evans (USA)	8:16.22	Tokyo, Japan	August 20, 1989

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	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	4	Diana Munz	United States	8:30.45
	2	3	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	8:31.89
	2	5	Hayley Peirsol	United States	8:32.27
4	1	5	Ai Shibata	Japan	8:38.30
5	2	6	Amanda Pascoe	Australia	8:39.89
6	2	1	Nayara Ribeiro	Brazil	8:43.53
7	2	7	Jennifer Reilly	Australia	8:44.92
8	2	8	Taryn Lencoe	Canada	8:51.00
9	1	4	Claire Hentzen	United States	8:44.84
10	1	6	Sawami Fujita	Japan	8:53.25
11	2	2	Madoka Ochi	Japan	8:59.44
12	1	2	Rebecca Linton	New Zealand	9:04.35
13	1	3	Ayane Sato	Japan	9:09.65
14	1	7	Bárbara Jatobá	Brazil	9:16.49

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