2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 26–27 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.[1][2] The last champion was Susie O'Neill of Australia.[3]

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Yokohama International Swimming Pool
Dates	August 26, 2002 (heats & semifinals) August 27, 2002 (final)
Competitors	28 from 8 nations
Winning time	1:58.74
Medalists
Lindsay Benko    United States   Elka Graham    Australia   Giaan Rooney    Australia

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.[4]

Records

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

World record	Franziska van Almsick (GER)	1:56.64	Berlin, Germany	August 3, 2002
Pan Pacific Championships record	Claudia Poll (CRC)	1:57.48	Fukuoka, Japan	August 10, 1997

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

CR

Championships record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 26.[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Lindsay Benko	United States	2:00.72	Q
2	4	5	Tomoko Hagiwara	Japan	2:00.75	Q
3	2	4	Elka Graham	Australia	2:01.04	Q
4	4	3	Diana Munz	United States	2:01.11	Q
5	2	2	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	2:01.35	Q
6	1	5	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	2:01.45	Q
7	3	5	Giaan Rooney	Australia	2:01.60	Q
8	4	8	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	2:01.70	Q
9	3	4	Pang Jiaying	China	2:01.84	Q
10	3	3	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	2:02.09	Q
10	3	6	Norie Urabe	Japan	2:02.09	Q
12	2	3	Jessica Deglau	Canada	2:02.37	Q
13	3	2	Mary Hill	United States	2:02.42	Q
14	4	7	Heidi Crawford	Australia	2:02.46	Q
15	2	6	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	2:02.60	Q
16	3	1	Elizabeth Collins	Canada	2:02.63	Q
17	4	6	Rhiannon Jeffrey	United States	2:02.71
18	2	8	Ai Shibata	Japan	2:03.34
19	4	2	Rebecca Creedy	Australia	2:03.63
20	1	3	Denise Oliveira	Brazil	2:04.78
21	2	1	Kelly Doody	Canada	2:04.99
22	3	7	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:05.19
23	2	7	Madoka Ochi	Japan	2:05.73
24	3	8	Sarah Jackson	New Zealand	2:06.08
25	1	6	Melanie Bouchard	Canada	2:06.51
26	1	4	Rebecca Linton	New Zealand	2:07.32
27	1	2	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	2:09.56
28	1	1	Wei Min Teo	Singapore	2:12.14
-	1	7	Nathalie Bernard	New Zealand	DNS
-	2	5	Petria Thomas	Australia	DNS
-	4	1	Laura Nicholls	Canada	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on August 26.[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Lindsay Benko	United States	2:00.66	Q
2	1	5	Diana Munz	United States	2:00.78	Q
3	2	5	Elka Graham	Australia	2:00.85	Q
4	1	4	Tomoko Hagiwara	Japan	2:01.37	Q
4	2	6	Giaan Rooney	Australia	2:01.37	Q
6	1	3	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	2:01.52	Q
7	2	8	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	2:01.55	Q
8	2	2	Pang Jiaying	China	2:01.61	Q
9	2	1	Mary Hill	United States	2:01.73
10	2	3	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	2:01.92
11	1	2	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	2:02.04
12	1	6	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	2:02.20
13	1	8	Elizabeth Collins	Canada	2:02.54
14	1	1	Heidi Crawford	Australia	2:02.58
15	2	7	Norie Urabe	Japan	2:03.27
16	1	7	Jessica Deglau	Canada	2:03.53

Final

The final was held on August 27.[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Lindsay Benko	United States	1:58.74
	3	Elka Graham	Australia	1:59.72
	2	Giaan Rooney	Australia	1:59.82
4	6	Tomoko Hagiwara	Japan	2:00.26
5	5	Diana Munz	United States	2:00.95
6	8	Pang Jiaying	China	2:01.65
7	1	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	2:01.94
8	7	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	2:02.68

References

1. "Results of the 2002 Pan Pacific". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). June 4, 2006. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
2. 2002 Pan Pacific held in Yokohama International Swimming Pool
3. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.