2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle


The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 25 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool. The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia, in 1997. This event was not held in 1999.
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 record7:39.16Fukuoka, JapanJuly 24, 2001
Pan Pacific Championships record7:50.28Atlanta, United StatesAugust 10, 1995

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
25Grant Hackett7:44.78CR
22Larsen Jensen7:52.05
24Chris Thompson7:56.69
427Craig Stevens7:56.86
523Shunichi Fujita8:01.97
626Takeshi Matsuda8:11.22
721Kurtis MacGillivary8:12.27
814Bruno Bonfim8:27.10
928Kwok Leung Chung8:36.77