The men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 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 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 11.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tom Wilkens 4:20.47 QA 2 Matthew Dunn 4:21.06 QA 3 Trent Steed 4:23.97 QA 4 Ron Karnaugh 4:24.20 QA 5 Steven Brown 4:24.28 QA 6 Curtis Myden 4:24.29 QA 7 Tatsuya Kinugasa 4:24.56 QA 8 Wang Wei 4:26.41 QA 9 Ian Thorpe 4:26.42 QB 10 Robert van der Zant 4:27.71 QB 11 Philip Weiss 4:28.01 QB 12 Oliver Young 4:28.84 QB 13 Tom Dolan 4:30.11 QB 14 Kin Ming Kwok 4:30.59 QB 15 Owen Von Richter 4:30.81 QB 16 Jo Yoshimi 4:32.64 QB 17 Lik Sun Fong 4:35.37 18 Ben Scott 4:38.53
B Final The B final was held on August 11.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9 Steven Brown 4:24.71 10 Owen Von Richter 4:28.11 11 Robert van der Zant 4:29.02 12 Oliver Young 4:29.19 13 Jo Yoshimi 4:29.42 14 Kin Ming Kwok 4:30.14 15 Ben Scott 4:32.67 16 Lik Sun Fong 4:38.77
A Final The A final was held on August 11. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Matthew Dunn 4:16.11 Curtis Myden 4:16.30 Trent Steed 4:21.07 4 Tom Wilkens 4:22.51 5 Ron Karnaugh 4:22.69 6 Tatsuya Kinugasa 4:23.63 7 Wang Wei 4:25.74 8 Philip Weiss 4:27.72
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