Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

International sporting event

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 2015 Pan American Games

Venue

CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House

Dates

July 18 (preliminaries and finals)

Competitors

16 from 12 nations

Winning time

8:27.54

Medalists

	Sierra Schmidt	United States
	Kristel Köbrich	Chile
	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela

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International sporting event

Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games

Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Marathon
10 km	men	women
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The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 18 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada. The defending Pan American Games champion was Kristel Kobrich of Chile.

This race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool in freestyle. All participating swimmers would take part in 2 heats based on qualifying time. There were no finals.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:11.00	Shenandoah, United States	June 22, 2014
Pan American Games record	Kaitlin Sandeno (USA)	8:34.65	Winnipeg, Canada	August 6, 1999

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
15 July	Final	Sierra Schmidt	United States	8:27.54	GR

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (8:52.99) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2014 to May 1, 2015). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (9:24.97) in the same qualifying period. All other competing athletes were entered as universality spots.

Schedule

All times are Eastern Time Zone (UTC-4).

Date	Time	Round
July 18, 2015	10:05	Final 1
July 18, 2015	19:05	Final 2

Results

KEY:

Fastest non-qualifiers

Qualified

Games record

National record

Personal best

Seasonal best

Final

The finals were held on July 18.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	2	Sierra Schmidt	United States	8:27.54	GR
	2	7	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	8:29.79
	2	5	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	8:31.08
4	2	4	Brittany MacLean	Canada	8:32.06
5	2	1	Joanna Evans	Bahamas	8:37.18
6	2	3	Courtney Harnish	United States	8:38.00
7	1	5	Bruna Primati	Brazil	8:40.75
8	1	3	Monserrat Ortuño	Mexico	8:45.81
9	2	8	Carolina Bilich	Brazil	8:47.94
10	2	6	Tabitha Baumann	Canada	8:48.37
11	1	4	Natalia Jaspeado	Mexico	8:53.70
12	1	6	Valerie Gruest	Guatemala	8:55.62
13	1	2	María Álvarez	Colombia	8:57.29
14	1	8	Rebeca Quinteros	El Salvador	9:07.98
15	1	7	Daniella van den Berg	Aruba	9:12.30
16	1	1	Lani Cabrera	Barbados	9:16.88