| Event: | Women's 1500 metre freestyle |
| Competition: | 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships |
| Venue: | Yokohama International Swimming Pool |
| Dates: | August 24, 2002 (heats &<br>finals) |
| Competitors: | 8 |
| Nations: | 6 |
| Win Value: | 16:07.86 |
| Gold: | Diana Munz |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Sachiko Yamada |
| Silvernoc: | JPN |
| Bronze: | Morgan Hentzen |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1997 |
| Next: | 2006 |
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]
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 | 15:52.10 | Orlando, United States | March 26, 1988 | ||
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 16:04.84 | Kobe, Japan | August 12, 1993 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Diana Munz | 16:07.86 | ||||
| 3 | Sachiko Yamada | 16:16.28 | ||||
| 7 | Morgan Hentzen | 16:29.25 | ||||
| 4 | 6 | Nayara Ribeiro | 16:33.82 | |||
| 5 | 2 | Ai Shibata | 16:33.86 | |||
| 6 | 1 | Taryn Lencoe | 16:42.82 | |||
| 7 | 5 | Amanda Pascoe | 16:46.84 | |||
| 8 | 8 | Rebecca Linton | 17:18.92 |