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.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history

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, 1988Pan 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.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 2 4 Kate Ziegler 15:55.01 CR 2 5 Hayley Peirsol 15:57.36 2 2 Ai Shibata 16:11.13 4 2 1 Kristel Köbrich 16:25.85 5 2 3 Sachiko Yamada 16:28.47 6 2 6 Melissa Gorman 16:29.10 7 1 4 Kelsey Ditto 16:31.95 8 2 8 Savannah King 16:46.38 9 2 7 Sarah Paton 16:55.97 10 1 5 Monica Stitski 17:04.78 11 1 6 Lauren Arndt 17:16.93 12 1 3 Melissa Benson 17:43.09

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