2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Yokohama International Swimming Pool
Dates	August 24, 2002 (heats & finals)
Competitors	23 from 9 nations
Winning time	3:45.28
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Grant Hackett    Australia   Klete Keller    United States

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.^[1][2] The last champion was Ian Thorpe of Australia.^[3]

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.^[4]

Records

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

World record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	3:40.08	Manchester, Great Britain	July 30, 2002
Pan Pacific Championships record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	3:41.83	Sydney, Australia	August 22, 1999

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 24.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:46.94	Q
2	2	4	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:48.50	Q
3	3	5	Craig Stevens	Australia	3:48.75	Q
4	1	4	Klete Keller	United States	3:49.19	Q
5	2	5	Erik Vendt	United States	3:49.58	Q
6	1	5	Chad Carvin	United States	3:49.99	Q
7	3	3	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	3:51.57	Q
8	2	3	Larsen Jensen	United States	3:52.41	Q
9	3	6	Richard Say	Canada	3:53.76
10	2	6	Mark Johnston	Canada	3:53.96
11	3	2	Naoya Sonoda	Japan	3:54.24
12	3	7	Bruno Bonfim	Brazil	3:57.22
13	1	3	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	3:57.96
14	1	6	Yosuke Ichikawa	Japan	3:59.09
15	1	2	Kurtis MacGillivary	Canada	3:59.50
16	1	7	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	4:03.31
17	2	1	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	4:03.69
18	2	7	Juan Pablo Valdivieso	Peru	4:04.31
19	2	2	Mark Kin Ming Kwok	Hong Kong	4:04.86
20	1	1	Kwok Leung Chung	Hong Kong	4:11.37
21	3	1	Rafael Mosca	Brazil	4:11.44
22	2	8	Seung Gin Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	4:26.65
23	3	8	Dean Palacios	Northern Mariana Islands	4:28.74

Final

The final was held on August 24.^[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:45.28
	5	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:45.99
	3	Klete Keller	United States	3:48.40
4	6	Erik Vendt	United States	3:49.75
5	2	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	3:51.40
6	7	Mark Johnston	Canada	3:52.29
7	1	Naoya Sonoda	Japan	3:55.98
8	8	Bruno Bonfim	Brazil	4:00.20

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 14, 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 Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine