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. The last champion was Melissa Gorman of Australia.
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.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record15:34.23Shenandoah, United StatesJune 19, 2014Pan Pacific Championships record15:55.01Victoria, CanadaAugust 17, 2006
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
The first and final round were held on August 24, at 19:31.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Katie Ledecky 15:28.36 WR Lauren Boyle 15:55.69 Brittany MacLean 15:57.15 4 Cierra Runge 16:04.48 5 Kristel Köbrich 16:30.74 6 Chihi Igarashi 16:34.09 7 Miho Takahashi 16:39.26 8 Emma Robinson 16:44.88
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