| Event: | Women's 800 metre freestyle |
| Competition: | 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships |
| Venue: | Yokohama International Swimming Pool |
| Dates: | August 28, 2002 (heats &<br>finals) |
| Competitors: | 14 |
| Nations: | 6 |
| Win Value: | 8:30.45 |
| Gold: | Diana Munz |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Sachiko Yamada |
| Silvernoc: | JPN |
| Bronze: | Hayley Peirsol |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1999 |
| Next: | 2006 |
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.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
| World record | 8:16.22 | Tokyo, Japan | August 20, 1989 | ||
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 8:16.22 | Tokyo, Japan | August 20, 1989 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | Diana Munz | 8:30.45 | ||||
| 2 | 3 | Sachiko Yamada | 8:31.89 | ||||
| 2 | 5 | Hayley Peirsol | 8:32.27 | ||||
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Ai Shibata | 8:38.30 | |||
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Amanda Pascoe | 8:39.89 | |||
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Nayara Ribeiro | 8:43.53 | |||
| 7 | 2 | 7 | Jennifer Reilly | 8:44.92 | |||
| 8 | 2 | 8 | Taryn Lencoe | 8:51.00 | |||
| 9 | 1 | 4 | Claire Hentzen | 8:44.84 | |||
| 10 | 1 | 6 | Sawami Fujita | 8:53.25 | |||
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Madoka Ochi | 8:59.44 | |||
| 12 | 1 | 2 | Rebecca Linton | 9:04.35 | |||
| 13 | 1 | 3 | Ayane Sato | 9:09.65 | |||
| 14 | 1 | 7 | Bárbara Jatobá | 9:16.49 |