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


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.
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, 1994
Pan 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.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Ron Karnaugh2:02.59QA
2Matthew Dunn2:02.89QA
3Curtis Myden2:03.27QA
4Wang Wei2:03.60QA
5Josh Davis2:03.91QA
6Mark Versfeld2:04.44QA
7Tatsuya Kinugasa2:04.46QA
8Steven Brown2:05.06QA
9Philip Weiss2:05.10QB
10Theo Verster2:05.12QB
11Robert van der Zant2:05.42QB
12Zane King2:05.85QB
13Jo Yoshimi2:05.95QB
14Ian Thorpe2:06.26QB
15Trent Steed2:06.33QB
16Nate Dusing2:06.50QB
17Oliver Young2:06.57
18Casey Barrett2:08.11
19Nicholas Sheeran2:10.34
20Oleg Tsvetkovskiy2:12.07

B Final

The B final was held on August 13.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
9Zane King2:03.95
10Philip Weiss2:04.18
11Steven Brown2:05.23
12Robert van der Zant2:05.73
13Jo Yoshimi2:05.92
14Oliver Young2:08.28
15Nicholas Sheeran2:08.37
16Oleg Tsvetkovskiy2:10.99

A Final

The A final was held on August 13.
RankLaneNationalityTimeNotes
Matthew Dunn2:01.14
Curtis Myden2:01.83
Ron Karnaugh2:02.25
4Josh Davis2:02.90
5Wang Wei2:03.02
6Tatsuya Kinugasa2:04.58
7Mark Versfeld2:04.91
8Theo Verster2:04.94