1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	NISHI Civic Pool
Dates	August 13, 1997 (heats & finals)
Competitors	20 from 8 nations
Winning time	2:01.14
Medalists
Matthew Dunn    Australia   Curtis Myden    Canada   Ron Karnaugh    United States

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.[1] The last champion was Tom Dolan of US.[2]

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.[3]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

World record	Jani Sievinen (FIN)	1:58.16	Rome, Italy	September 11, 1994
Pan Pacific Championships record	David Wharton (USA)	2:00.11	Tokyo, Japan	August 20, 1989

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

CR

Championships record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 13.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ron Karnaugh	United States	2:02.59	QA
2	Matthew Dunn	Australia	2:02.89	QA
3	Curtis Myden	Canada	2:03.27	QA
4	Wang Wei	China	2:03.60	QA
5	Josh Davis	United States	2:03.91	QA
6	Mark Versfeld	Canada	2:04.44	QA
7	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:04.46	QA
8	Steven Brown	United States	2:05.06	QA
9	Philip Weiss	Canada	2:05.10	QB
10	Theo Verster	South Africa	2:05.12	QB
11	Robert van der Zant	Australia	2:05.42	QB
12	Zane King	Australia	2:05.85	QB
13	Jo Yoshimi	Japan	2:05.95	QB
14	Ian Thorpe	Australia	2:06.26	QB
15	Trent Steed	Australia	2:06.33	QB
16	Nate Dusing	United States	2:06.50	QB
17	Oliver Young	New Zealand	2:06.57
18	Casey Barrett	Canada	2:08.11
19	Nicholas Sheeran	New Zealand	2:10.34
20	Oleg Tsvetkovskiy	Uzbekistan	2:12.07

B Final

The B final was held on August 13.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	Zane King	Australia	2:03.95
10	Philip Weiss	Canada	2:04.18
11	Steven Brown	United States	2:05.23
12	Robert van der Zant	Australia	2:05.73
13	Jo Yoshimi	Japan	2:05.92
14	Oliver Young	New Zealand	2:08.28
15	Nicholas Sheeran	New Zealand	2:08.37
16	Oleg Tsvetkovskiy	Uzbekistan	2:10.99

A Final

The A final was held on August 13.[1]

Rank	Lane	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Matthew Dunn	Australia	2:01.14
	Curtis Myden	Canada	2:01.83
	Ron Karnaugh	United States	2:02.25
4	Josh Davis	United States	2:02.90
5	Wang Wei	China	2:03.02
6	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:04.58
7	Mark Versfeld	Canada	2:04.91
8	Theo Verster	South Africa	2:04.94

References

1. "Results of the 1997 Pan Pacific". Swim News. September 1997. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
2. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.