The women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 22 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre. The last champion was Claudia Poll of Costa Rica.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.Swimming technical manual
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record4:03.85Seoul, South KoreaSeptember 22, 1988Pan Pacific Championships record4:04.53Tokyo, JapanAugust 1989
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 22.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Brooke Bennett 4:09.15 Q 2 Lindsay Benko 4:10.48 Q 3 Ellen Stonebraker 4:10.83 4 Claudia Poll 4:12.75 Q 5 Cristina Teuscher 4:13.67 6 Rachel Harris 4:14.84 Q 7 Melissa Deary 4:15.10 8 Charlene Benzie 4:15.65 Q 9 Sachiko Yamada 4:16.95 Q 10 Danielle Woods 4:17.46 11 Sarah D'Arcy 4:17.80 12 Jennifer Reilly 4:18.06 13 Molly Freedman 4:18.08 14 Kim van Selm 4:21.39 Q 15 Danielle Bell 4:21.51 Q 16 Sarah Tolar 4:22.39 17 Tsai Shu-min 4:22.50 18 Lindsay Beavers 4:24.47 19 Junko Nakatani 4:24.81 20 Elizabeth Van Welie 4:25.29 21 Natalie du Toit 4:26.26 22 Deanna Schonwald 4:26.96 23 Katie Brambley 4:27.02 24 Roh Joo-hee 4:27.25
Final The final was held on August 22. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Brooke Bennett 4:08.39 Lindsay Benko 4:08.75 Claudia Poll 4:11.54 4 Rachel Harris 4:14.80 5 Sachiko Yamada 4:15.54 6 Charlene Benzie 4:15.76 7 Danielle Bell 4:21.36 8 Kim van Selm 4:21.66
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