The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 13 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Akira Hayashi of Japan.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in breaststroke.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record2:10.16Barcelona, SpainJuly 29, 1992Pan Pacific Championships record2:11.96Edmonton, CanadaAugust 25, 1991
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 13.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tom Wilkens 2:15.67 QA 2 Kurt Grote 2:16.06 QA 3 Chikara Nakashita 2:16.36 QA 3 Yoshiaki Okita 2:16.36 QA 5 Simon Cowley 2:16.63 QA 6 Phil Rogers 2:17.10 QA 6 Morgan Knabe 2:17.10 QA 8 Michael Norment 2:17.94 QA 9 Andrew Chan 2:17.99 QB 10 Jarrod Marrs 2:18.25 QB 11 Jeremy Linn 2:19.29 QB 12 Yoshinobu Miyazaki 2:20.76 QB 13 Tam Chi Kin 2:20.88 QB 14 Michael Scott 2:27.77 QB 15 Robert van der Zant 2:30.24 QB 16 Denny Kurniawan 2:32.74 QB
B Final The B final was held on August 13.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9 Yoshinobu Miyazaki 2:18.48 10 Michael Norment 2:18.70 11 Tam Chi Kin 2:23.08 12 Michael Scott 2:25.30 13 Robert van der Zant 2:26.78 14 Denny Kurniawan 2:31.27 – Jarrod Marrs DNS – Jeremy Linn DNS
A Final The A final was held on August 13. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Kurt Grote 2:14.05 Yoshiaki Okita 2:14.59 Tom Wilkens 2:14.80 4 Phil Rogers 2:14.81 5 Chikara Nakashita 2:14.97 6 Simon Cowley 2:15.36 7 Morgan Knabe 2:16.73 8 Andrew Chan 2:17.59
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