The men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.2002 Pan Pacific held in Yokohama International Swimming Pool The last champion was Ian Thorpe of Australia.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.Swimming technical manual
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record3:40.08Manchester, Great BritainJuly 30, 2002Pan Pacific Championships record3:41.83Sydney, AustraliaAugust 22, 1999
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 24.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Ian Thorpe 3:46.94 Q 2 2 4 Grant Hackett 3:48.50 Q 3 3 5 Craig Stevens 3:48.75 Q 4 1 4 Klete Keller 3:49.19 Q 5 2 5 Erik Vendt 3:49.58 Q 6 1 5 Chad Carvin 3:49.99 Q 7 3 3 Shunichi Fujita 3:51.57 Q 8 2 3 Larsen Jensen 3:52.41 Q 9 3 6 Richard Say 3:53.76 10 2 6 Mark Johnston 3:53.96 11 3 2 Naoya Sonoda 3:54.24 12 3 7 Bruno Bonfim 3:57.22 13 1 3 Takeshi Matsuda 3:57.96 14 1 6 Yosuke Ichikawa 3:59.09 15 1 2 Kurtis MacGillivary 3:59.50 16 1 7 Moss Burmester 4:03.31 17 2 1 Cameron Gibson 4:03.69 18 2 7 Juan Pablo Valdivieso 4:04.31 19 2 2 Mark Kin Ming Kwok 4:04.86 20 1 1 Kwok Leung Chung 4:11.37 21 3 1 Rafael Mosca 4:11.44 22 2 8 Seung Gin Lee 4:26.65 23 3 8 Dean Palacios 4:28.74
Final The final was held on August 24. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Ian Thorpe 3:45.28 5 Grant Hackett 3:45.99 3 Klete Keller 3:48.40 4 6 Erik Vendt 3:49.75 5 2 Shunichi Fujita 3:51.40 6 7 Mark Johnston 3:52.29 7 1 Naoya Sonoda 3:55.98 8 8 Bruno Bonfim 4:00.20
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