| Event: | Men's 1500 metre freestyle |
| Competition: | 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships |
| Venue: | Yokohama International Swimming Pool |
| Dates: | August 29, 2002 (heats &<br>finals) |
| Competitors: | 8 |
| Nations: | 5 |
| Win Value: | 14:41.65 |
| Gold: | Grant Hackett |
| Goldnoc: | AUS |
| Silver: | Erik Vendt |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Larsen Jensen |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1999 |
| Next: | 2006 |
The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 29 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.[1] [2] The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia.[3]
This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
| World record | 14:34.56 | Fukuoka, Japan | July 29, 2001 | ||
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 14:45.60 | Sydney, Australia | August 29, 1999 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | Grant Hackett | 14:41.65 | CR | |||
| 2 | 5 | Erik Vendt | 15:02.24 | ||||
| 2 | 3 | Larsen Jensen | 15:05.17 | ||||
| 4 | 2 | 6 | Craig Stevens | 15:20.76 | |||
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Shunichi Fujita | 15:21.19 | |||
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Kurtis MacGillivary | 15:36.12 | |||
| 7 | 2 | 8 | Bruno Bonfim | 15:41.80 | |||
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Takeshi Matsuda | 15:53.75 | |||
| - | 1 | 4 | Chris Thompson | 15:29.27 | |||
| - | 1 | 5 | Kwok Leung Chung | 16:02.83 |