| Event: | Women's 200 metre individual medley |
| Competition: | 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships |
| Venue: | Yokohama International Swimming Pool |
| Dates: | August 25, 2002 (heats &<br>semifinals) August 26, 2002 (final) |
| Competitors: | 25 |
| Nations: | 8 |
| Win Value: | 2:13.42 |
| Gold: | Tomoko Hagiwara |
| Goldnoc: | JPN |
| Silver: | Gabrielle Rose |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Maggie Bowen |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1999 |
| Next: | 2006 |
The women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 25–26 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.[1] [2] The last champion was Joanne Malar of Canada.[3]
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.[4]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
| World record | 2:09.72 | Shanghai, China | October 17, 1997 | ||
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 2:12.54 | Kobe, Japan | August 15, 1993 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
The first round was held on August 25.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 2:15.51 | Q | |||
| 2 | 2 | 4 | 2:15.89 | Q | |||
| 3 | 3 | 6 | 2:16.02 | Q | |||
| 4 | 2 | 5 | 2:17.25 | Q | |||
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 2:17.47 | Q | |||
| 6 | 4 | 5 | 2:17.48 | Q | |||
| 7 | 3 | 3 | 2:18.07 | Q | |||
| 8 | 3 | 2 | 2:18.23 | Q | |||
| 9 | 4 | 3 | 2:18.51 | Q | |||
| 10 | 2 | 3 | 2:18.71 | Q | |||
| 11 | 3 | 5 | 2:18.96 | Q | |||
| 12 | 4 | 6 | 2:20.25 | Q | |||
| 13 | 4 | 1 | 2:20.31 | Q | |||
| 14 | 4 | 2 | 2:20.33 | Q | |||
| 15 | 3 | 8 | 2:20.35 | Q | |||
| 16 | 4 | 8 | 2:20.40 | Q | |||
| 17 | 2 | 2 | 2:20.52 | ||||
| 18 | 3 | 7 | 2:20.59 | ||||
| 19 | 2 | 7 | 2:20.93 | ||||
| 20 | 2 | 1 | 2:21.24 | ||||
| 21 | 4 | 7 | 2:21.41 | ||||
| 22 | 2 | 6 | 2:21.61 | ||||
| 23 | 1 | 5 | 2:25.15 | ||||
| 24 | 1 | 4 | 2:25.48 | ||||
| 25 | 1 | 6 | 2:29.55 | ||||
| - | 1 | 3 | DNS | ||||
| - | 2 | 8 | DNS | ||||
| - | 3 | 1 | DNS |
The semifinals were held on August 25.[5]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2:14.23 | Q | |||
| 2 | 2:14.31 | Q | |||
| 3 | 2:14.95 | Q | |||
| 4 | 2:15.70 | Q | |||
| 5 | 2:16.34 | Q | |||
| 6 | 2:16.36 | Q | |||
| 7 | 2:17.53 | Q | |||
| 8 | 2:17.61 | Q | |||
| 9 | 2:17.63 | ||||
| 10 | 2:18.72 | ||||
| 11 | 2:18.96 | ||||
| 12 | 2:20.07 | ||||
| 13 | 2:20.78 | ||||
| 14 | 2:20.88 | ||||
| 15 | 2:20.97 | ||||
| 16 | 2:21.30 |
The final was held on August 26.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2:13.42 | |||||
| 3 | 2:13.93 | |||||
| 5 | Maggie Bowen | 2:14.28 | ||||
| 4 | 1 | Zhou Yafei | 2:16.23 | |||
| 5 | 7 | Alice Mills | 2:16.51 | |||
| 6 | 6 | Elizabeth Warden | 2:16.99 | |||
| 7 | 2 | Jennifer Reilly | 2:18.70 | |||
| 8 | 8 | Kristy Cameron | 2:18.72 |