Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 2006 Central American & Caribbean Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
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

The Women's 800m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Monday, July 17, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia. It was the first swimming event of the Games.

Records at the start of the event were:

• World Record (WR): 8:16.22, Janet Evans (USA), Tokyo, Japan, August 20, 1989
• CAC Record (CR): 8:52.57, Carolyn Adel (Suriname), 1998 Games in Maracaibo, Venezuela, August 9, 1998

Results

(Time Final)

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time	Note
1	Susana Escobar	Mexico	8:51.05	GR
2	Patricia Castañeda	Mexico	8:54.15
3	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	9:00.36
4	Golda Marcus	El Salvador	9:12.72
5	Isabela Acuña Osorno	Colombia	9:15.91
6	Heather Roffey	Cayman Islands	9:21.16
7	Juanita Hurtado Varela	Colombia	9:29.80
8	Militza Rios La Luz	Puerto Rico	9:37.31
9	Valerie Ayla Marie Eman	Aruba	9:41.77
10	Cindy Toscano	Guatemala	9:48.37
11	Johanna Rodriguez Chavarria	Costa Rica	9:55.05
12	Jodie Foster	Cayman Islands	10:24.98

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