The men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 13 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Tom Dolan of US.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record1:58.16Rome, ItalySeptember 11, 1994Pan Pacific Championships record2:00.11Tokyo, JapanAugust 20, 1989
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 Ron Karnaugh 2:02.59 QA 2 Matthew Dunn 2:02.89 QA 3 Curtis Myden 2:03.27 QA 4 Wang Wei 2:03.60 QA 5 Josh Davis 2:03.91 QA 6 Mark Versfeld 2:04.44 QA 7 Tatsuya Kinugasa 2:04.46 QA 8 Steven Brown 2:05.06 QA 9 Philip Weiss 2:05.10 QB 10 Theo Verster 2:05.12 QB 11 Robert van der Zant 2:05.42 QB 12 Zane King 2:05.85 QB 13 Jo Yoshimi 2:05.95 QB 14 Ian Thorpe 2:06.26 QB 15 Trent Steed 2:06.33 QB 16 Nate Dusing 2:06.50 QB 17 Oliver Young 2:06.57 18 Casey Barrett 2:08.11 19 Nicholas Sheeran 2:10.34 20 Oleg Tsvetkovskiy 2:12.07
B Final The B final was held on August 13.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9 Zane King 2:03.95 10 Philip Weiss 2:04.18 11 Steven Brown 2:05.23 12 Robert van der Zant 2:05.73 13 Jo Yoshimi 2:05.92 14 Oliver Young 2:08.28 15 Nicholas Sheeran 2:08.37 16 Oleg Tsvetkovskiy 2:10.99
A Final The A final was held on August 13. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Matthew Dunn 2:01.14 Curtis Myden 2:01.83 Ron Karnaugh 2:02.25 4 Josh Davis 2:02.90 5 Wang Wei 2:03.02 6 Tatsuya Kinugasa 2:04.58 7 Mark Versfeld 2:04.91 8 Theo Verster 2:04.94
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