The women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on 25 August at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.2002 Pan Pacific held in Yokohama International Swimming Pool The last champion was Brooke Bennett of US.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 record4:03.85Seoul, South Korea22 September 1988Pan Pacific Championships record4:04.53Tokyo, Japan19 August 1989
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on 25 August.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Diana Munz 4:10.30 Q 2 2 4 Lindsay Benko 4:10.49 Q 3 2 5 Sachiko Yamada 4:12.24 Q 4 4 3 Hayley Peirsol 4:12.44 Q 5 3 5 Elka Graham 4:13.99 Q 6 4 2 Monique Ferreira 4:14.82 Q 7 3 3 Amanda Pascoe 4:14.89 Q 8 2 6 Ai Shibata 4:15.18 Q 9 4 5 Mary Hill 4:15.87 10 2 3 Jessica Deglau 4:15.97 11 2 1 Mariana Brochado 4:16.91 12 4 4 Pang Jiaying 4:17.43 13 4 6 Claire Hentzen 4:18.43 14 2 2 Norie Urabe 4:19.71 15 3 6 Madoka Ochi 4:20.84 16 1 4 Denise Oliveira 4:22.44 17 3 7 Taryn Lencoe 4:22.62 18 2 7 Heidi Crawford 4:24.02 19 4 1 Rebecca Linton 4:25.57 20 1 5 Nathalie Bernard 4:26.04 21 3 1 Melissa Ingram 4:28.05 22 4 8 Sarah Jackson 4:31.76 23 1 3 U Nice Chan 4:36.51 – 3 2 Elizabeth Van Welie DNS – 4 7 Kelly Doody DNS
Final The final was held on 25 August. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Diana Munz 4:09.50 5 Lindsay Benko 4:10.28 3 Sachiko Yamada 4:10.79 4 6 Elka Graham 4:12.42 5 7 Amanda Pascoe 4:13.33 6 1 Ai Shibata 4:13.34 7 2 Monique Ferreira 4:13.48 8 8 Jessica Deglau 4:19.36
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