The men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 25 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.2002 Pan Pacific held in Yokohama International Swimming Pool The last champion was Matthew Dunn of Australia.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 record4:11.09Fort Lauderdale, United StatesAugust 15, 2002Pan 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 25.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Michael Phelps 4:13.27 Q, CR 2 1 3 Takahiro Mori 4:15.41 Q 3 1 5 Shinya Taniguchi 4:15.46 Q 4 2 4 Erik Vendt 4:16.64 Q 5 1 4 Tom Wilkens 4:19.06 Q 6 3 3 Brian Johns 4:19.21 Q 7 1 6 Eric Donnelly 4:19.75 Q 8 3 5 Jiro Miki 4:20.66 Q 9 3 2 Trent Steed 4:20.74 10 3 6 Dean Kent 4:20.97 11 2 3 Kevin Clements 4:21.74 12 2 5 Justin Norris 4:22.51 13 2 6 Carlos Sayao 4:23.09 14 3 7 Keith Beavers 4:25.03 15 2 7 Rafael Gonçalves 4:26.51 16 2 2 Chad Murray 4:29.27 17 1 2 Anthony van der Kraay 4:31.29 18 1 7 Diogo Yabe 4:31.56 19 3 1 Lucas Salatta 4:34.41 20 2 1 Kléber Ihara 4:40.30
Final The final was held on August 25. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Michael Phelps 4:12.48 CR 6 Erik Vendt 4:13.15 5 Takahiro Mori 4:16.35 4 2 Brian Johns 4:16.44 5 3 Shinya Taniguchi 4:17.62 6 8 Justin Norris 4:20.19 7 1 Dean Kent 4:20.79 8 7 Trent Steed 4:21.45
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