1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle


The men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 13 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Gary Hall, Jr. of US.
This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
World record21.81Nashville, United StatesMarch 24, 1990
Pan Pacific Championships record22.12Tokyo, 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
1Bill Pilczuk22.39QA
2David Fox22.54QA
3Neil Walker22.65QA
4Ricardo Busquets22.79QA
4Brendon Dedekind22.79QA
6Michael Klim22.99QA
7Scott Tucker23.01QA
7Jon Olsen23.01QA
9Scott Logan23.02QB
10Josh Davis23.11QB
11Tomohiro Yamanoi23.17QB
12Craig Hutchison23.23QB
13Sion Brinn23.29QB
14Shunsuke Ito23.52QB
14Brad Schumacher23.52QB
16Lenny Krayzelburg23.67QB
17Uğur Taner23.83
18Ravil Nachaev23.84
19Nicholas Tongue23.87
20Richard Upton23.92
21Derrick Bollinger23.95
22John Steel23.96
23Junya Kawakami23.99

B Final

The B final was held on August 13.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
9Neil Walker22.74
10Sion Brinn23.34
11Shunsuke Ito23.50
12Richard Upton23.75
13Nicholas Tongue23.81
14Ravil Nachaev24.11
15John Steel24.20
-Derrick BollingerDNS

A Final

The A final was held on August 13.
RankLaneNationalityTimeNotes
Bill Pilczuk22.42
Ricardo Busquets22.42
David Fox22.69
4Brendon Dedekind22.79
5Scott Logan22.91
6Michael Klim22.93
7Tomohiro Yamanoi22.98
8Craig Hutchison23.18