The women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.

[1][2] The last champion was Brooke Bennett of US, in 1997.

This event wasn't held in 1999.

[3] This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once.

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: All times are in minutes and seconds.