2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle


The women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 17 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Diana Munz of US.
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 record15:52.10Orlando, United StatesMarch 26, 1988
Pan Pacific Championships record16:04.84Kobe, JapanAugust 12, 1992

Results

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

The first round was held on August 17, at 11:12, and the final was held on August 17, at 20:14.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
24Kate Ziegler15:55.01CR
25Hayley Peirsol15:57.36
22Ai Shibata16:11.13
421Kristel Köbrich16:25.85
523Sachiko Yamada16:28.47
626Melissa Gorman16:29.10
714Kelsey Ditto16:31.95
828Savannah King16:46.38
927Sarah Paton16:55.97
1015Monica Stitski17:04.78
1116Lauren Arndt17:16.93
1213Melissa Benson17:43.09