2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Venue

Dates

August 29, 2002 (heats &
finals)

Competitors

8 from 5 nations

Winning time

14:41.65

Medalists

← 1999

2006 →

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 29 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.^[1]^[2] The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia.^[3]

This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

World record	Grant Hackett (AUS)	14:34.56	Fukuoka, Japan	July 29, 2001
Pan Pacific Championships record	Grant Hackett (AUS)	14:45.60	Sydney, Australia	August 29, 1999

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

Fastest non-qualifiers

Qualified

Championships record

National record

Personal best

Seasonal best

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	4	Grant Hackett	Australia	14:41.65	CR
	2	5	Erik Vendt	United States	15:02.24
	2	3	Larsen Jensen	United States	15:05.17
4	2	6	Craig Stevens	Australia	15:20.76
5	2	2	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	15:21.19
6	2	1	Kurtis MacGillivary	Canada	15:36.12
7	2	8	Bruno Bonfim	Brazil	15:41.80
8	2	7	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	15:53.75
-	1	4	Chris Thompson	United States	15:29.27
-	1	5	Kwok Leung Chung	Hong Kong	16:02.83

^ "Results of the 2002 Pan Pacific". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). June 4, 2006. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
^ 2002 Pan Pacific held in Yokohama International Swimming Pool
^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine