2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle


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, 2014
Pan 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.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Katie Ledecky15:28.36WR
Lauren Boyle15:55.69
Brittany MacLean15:57.15
4Cierra Runge16:04.48
5Kristel Köbrich16:30.74
6Chihi Igarashi16:34.09
7Miho Takahashi16:39.26
8Emma Robinson16:44.88