Pan Pacific Championships Women’s Day Three Prelims: World Record Holder Summer McIntosh Bumped to B Final in 400 Free
The 2026 Pan Pacific Championships continued with the Day Three prelims on Friday, Aug. 14, at the Wollett Aquatic Center in Irvine, California.
The events for Friday morning session include the 400 freestyle, 100 butterfly, 200 backstroke and 50 breaststroke.
This is a live recap of the women’s events.
Women’s 400 Freestyle
The table looked set for the anticipated three-way battle in the women’s 400 freestyle.
The world record holder is Canada’s Summer McIntosh, the American record-holder is Katie Ledecky, and Australia’s Lani Pallister came into the meet fifth all-time.
But the prelims didn’t go as expected and only two of them will battle for the finals.
McIntosh, the world-record holder, finished with the ninth-fastest time in the heats and will swim in the B finals.
The Canadian star went a 4:08.56 – 14 seconds under her world-record time.
Ledecky took the top seed into finals with a swim of 4:03.48.
New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather took the second spot in 4:04.50, ahead of the second U.S. swimmer in the final, Kennedi Dobson (4:05.10).
Australia’s Lani Pallister cruised into the fourth seed at 4:05.22.
The other finalists are Brazil’s Maria Costa (4:06.63), Australia’s Moesha Johnson (4:07.75), Japan’s Ichika Kajimoto (4:07.92) and China’s Fan Yaqi (4:08.36).
That left McIntosh, USA’s Jillian Cox (4:09.14) and Argentina’s Agostina Hein (4:09.80) just out of the A final.
