The men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 23 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre. The last champion was Matthew Dunn of Australia.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle.Swimming technical manual
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record4:12.30Rome, ItalySeptember 11, 1994Pan Pacific Championships record4:14.77Atlanta, United StatesAugust 10, 1995
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 23.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Trent Steed 4:19.14 Q 2 Tom Wilkens 4:19.97 Q 3 Matthew Dunn 4:20.22 Q 4 Erik Vendt 4:20.42 Q 5 Curtis Myden 4:20.69 Q 6 Grant McGregor 4:20.72 7 Justin Norris 4:22.69 8 Tatsuya Kinugasa 4:22.95 Q 9 Takahiro Mori 4:23.05 Q 10 Terence Parkin 4:23.67 Q 11 Owen Von Richter 4:25.08 12 Dean Kent 4:27.07 13 Chuck Sayao 4:28.40 14 Tseng Cheng-hua 4:36.62 15 Wan Azlan Abdullah 4:36.83
Final The final was held on August 23. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Matthew Dunn 4:16.54 Curtis Myden 4:16.77 Tom Wilkens 4:18.58 4 Trent Steed 4:19.65 5 Terence Parkin 4:20.79 6 Takahiro Mori 4:23.09 7 Erik Vendt 4:24.50 8 Tatsuya Kinugasa 4:24.88
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