The women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 9 at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. The defending champion was Katie Ledecky of United States.
This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. Early heat was swum at the end of the preliminary heats on that day from slowest to fastest. The fastest timed final heat was swum with the finals.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record8:04.79Rio de Janeiro, Brazil12 August 2016Pan Pacific Championships record8:11.35Gold Coast, Australia21 August 2014
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:CRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
The timed final was held on 9 August from 10:00 to the slowest heats and from 17:30 to the fastest heat.
Only two swimmers from each country was classified in the award ranking.
Total ranking Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Katie Ledecky 8:09.13 CR 2 3 Ariarne Titmus 8:17.07 OC 3 3 Leah Smith 8:17.21 4 3 Kiah Melverton 8:25.64 5 2 Erica Sullivan 8:26.27 6 2 Haley Anderson 8:27.13 7 2 Madeleine Gough 8:27.28 8 2 Ashley Twichell 8:29.36 9 3 Waka Kobori 8:31.89 10 3 Mackenzie Padington 8:34.49 11 2 Chase Travis 8:37.86 12 3 Yukimi Moriyama 8:41.44 13 2 Kate Sanderson 8:43.99 14 3 Zhang Ke 8:44.17 15 2 Nicole Oliva 8:53.21 16 1 Rosalee Santa Ana 9:12.04 17 1 Osisang Chilton 10:40.45 18 1 Mineri Gomez 10:58.33
Award ranking Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Katie Ledecky 8:09.13 CR Ariarne Titmus 8:17.07 OC Leah Smith 8:17.21 4 Kiah Melverton 8:25.64 5 Waka Kobori 8:31.89 6 Mackenzie Padington 8:34.49 7 Yukimi Moriyama 8:41.44 8 Kate Sanderson 8:43.99
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