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

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	Yokohama International Swimming Pool
Dates	August 26, 2002 (heats & semifinals) August 27, 2002 (final)
Competitors	23 from 8 nations
Winning time	25.13
Medalists
Jenny Thompson   United States   Jodie Henry   Australia   Tammie Stone   United States

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 record	Inge de Bruijn (NED)	24.13	Sydney, Australia	September 22, 2000
Pan Pacific Championships record	Amy Van Dyken (USA)	25.03	Atlanta, USA	August 13, 1995

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 26.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Alice Mills	Australia	25.39	Q
2	2	5	Jenny Thompson	United States	25.49	Q
3	3	4	Tammie Stone	United States	25.57	Q
4	3	5	Jodie Henry	Australia	25.69	Q
4	2	4	Haley Cope	United States	25.82	Q
6	3	3	Sarah Ryan	Australia	25.87	Q
7	1	4	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	25.95	Q
7	2	3	Cassie Hunt	Australia	25.95	Q
9	1	3	Laura Nicholls	Canada	25.98	Q
10	3	2	Rebecca Creedy	Australia	26.08	Q
11	2	6	Kaori Yamada	Japan	26.23	Q
12	3	6	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	26.29	Q
13	2	2	Courtney Shealy	United States	26.30	Q
13	3	7	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	26.30	Q
15	1	6	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	26.57	Q
16	1	2	Rebeca Gusmão	Brazil	26.78	?
16	2	7	Norie Urabe	Japan	26.78	?
18	1	7	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	26.87
19	1	8	Jennifer Ng	Hong Kong	27.16
19	2	1	Dyana Calub	Australia	27.16
21	3	1	Sherry Tsai	Hong Kong	27.37
22	1	1	Hing Ting Tang	Hong Kong	27.60
23	3	8	Shuk Mui Pang	Hong Kong	27.68
-	2	8	Maureen Farrell	United States	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on August 26.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Tammie Stone	United States	25.26	Q
2	1	5	Jodie Henry	Australia	25.29	Q
3	1	4	Jenny Thompson	United States	25.48	Q
4	2	3	Haley Cope	United States	25.53	Q
5	2	4	Alice Mills	Australia	25.64	Q
6	1	3	Sarah Ryan	Australia	25.91	Q
7	2	2	Laura Nicholls	Canada	25.94	Q
8	1	6	Cassie Hunt	Australia	25.99	Q
9	2	6	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	26.08
10	1	2	Kaori Yamada	Japan	26.17
11	2	7	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	26.22
12	2	1	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	26.35
13	1	7	Courtney Shealy	United States	26.40
14	1	1	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	26.44
15	1	8	Norie Urabe	Japan	26.81
16	2	8	Rebeca Gusmão	Brazil	27.20

Final

The final was held on August 27.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Jenny Thompson	United States	25.13
	5	Jodie Henry	Australia	25.32
	4	Tammie Stone	United States	25.42
4	6	Alice Mills	Australia	25.66
5	2	Laura Nicholls	Canada	25.78
6	7	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	25.97
7	1	Kaori Yamada	Japan	26.09
8	8	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	26.10