1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle


The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Daniel Kowalski of Australia.
This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
World record7:46.00Victoria, CanadaAugust 24, 1994
Pan Pacific Championships record7:50.28Atlanta, United StatesAugust 10, 1995

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Grant Hackett7:50.30
Chad Carvin7:57.82
Tyler Painter8:01.17
4Masato Hirano8:06.81
5Tim Siciliano8:07.31
6Jason Samuelson8:08.80
7Torlarp Sethsothorn8:11.02
8Hisato Yasui8:19.43
9Matthew Smith8:22.69