Event: | Women's 1500 metre freestyle |
Competition: | 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships |
Venue: | Gold Coast Aquatic Centre |
Dates: | August 24, 2014 (heats &<br>finals) |
Competitors: | 8 |
Win Value: | 15:28.36 |
Gold: | Katie Ledecky |
Goldnoc: | USA |
Silver: | Lauren Boyle |
Silvernoc: | NZL |
Bronze: | Brittany MacLean |
Bronzenoc: | CAN |
Prev: | 2010 |
Next: | 2018 |
The women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24 at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.[1] The last champion was Melissa Gorman of Australia.[2]
This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. The top 8 seeded swimmers swam in the evening, and the remaining swimmers swam in the morning session.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
World record | 15:34.23 | Shenandoah, United States | June 19, 2014 | ||
Pan Pacific Championships record | 15:55.01 | Victoria, Canada | August 17, 2006 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
The first and final round were held on August 24, at 19:31.
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
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15:28.36 | WR | ||||
15:55.69 | |||||
15:57.15 | |||||
4 | 16:04.48 | ||||
5 | 16:30.74 | ||||
6 | 16:34.09 | ||||
7 | 16:39.26 | ||||
8 | 16:44.88 |