2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle


The women's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 26–27 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool. The last champion was Jenny Thompson of US.
This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
World record24.13Sydney, AustraliaSeptember 22, 2000
Pan Pacific Championships record25.03Atlanta, United StatesAugust 13, 1995

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 26.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
115Alice Mills25.39Q
225Jenny Thompson25.49Q
334Tammie Stone25.57Q
435Jodie Henry25.69Q
424Haley Cope25.82Q
633Sarah Ryan25.87Q
714Toni Jeffs25.95Q
723Cassie Hunt25.95Q
913Laura Nicholls25.98Q
1032Rebecca Creedy26.08Q
1126Kaori Yamada26.23Q
1236Tomoko Nagai26.29Q
1322Courtney Shealy26.30Q
1337Alison Fitch26.30Q
1516Joscelin Yeo26.57Q
1612Rebeca Gusmão26.78?
1627Norie Urabe26.78?
1817Hannah McLean26.87
1918Jennifer Ng27.16
1921Dyana Calub27.16
2131Sherry Tsai27.37
2211Hing Ting Tang27.60
2338Shuk Mui Pang27.68
-28Maureen FarrellDNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on August 26.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
125Tammie Stone25.26Q
215Jodie Henry25.29Q
314Jenny Thompson25.48Q
423Haley Cope25.53Q
524Alice Mills25.64Q
613Sarah Ryan25.91Q
722Laura Nicholls25.94Q
816Cassie Hunt25.99Q
926Toni Jeffs26.08
1012Kaori Yamada26.17
1127Tomoko Nagai26.22
1221Alison Fitch26.35
1317Courtney Shealy26.40
1411Joscelin Yeo26.44
1518Norie Urabe26.81
1628Rebeca Gusmão27.20

Final

The final was held on August 27.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
3Jenny Thompson25.13
5Jodie Henry25.32
4Tammie Stone25.42
46Alice Mills25.66
52Laura Nicholls25.78
67Toni Jeffs25.97
71Kaori Yamada26.09
88Tomoko Nagai26.10