The men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 22, 1999 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre. The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the freestyle stroke.Swimming technical manual
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record3:43.80Rome, ItalySeptember 11, 1994Pan Pacific Championships record3:47.27Fukuoka, JapanAugust 12, 1997
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 22.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Grant Hackett 3:47.37 Q 2 Ian Thorpe 3:48.36 Q 3 Ryk Neethling 3:49.47 Q 4 Masato Hirano 3:52.33 Q 5 Chad Carvin 3:52.41 Q 6 Jon Younghouse 3:52.63 Q 6 Chris Thompson 3:52.63 8 Craig Stevens 3:53.97 9 Erik Vendt 3:55.00 10 Yosuke Ichikawa 3:55.79 Q 11 Rick Say 3:56.07 Q 12 Mark Johnston 3:56.10 13 Shusuke Ito 3:59.14 14 Kieren Perkins 3:59.27 15 Chuck Sayao 4:01.06 16 Tim Peterson 4:02.95 17 Andrew Hurd 4:05.08 18 Torin Hay 4:08.77 19 Hsu Kuo-tung 4:17.68 20 Lin Shu-Jen 4:28.57
Final The final was held on August 22. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Ian Thorpe 3:41.83 WR Grant Hackett 3:46.02 Ryk Neethling 3:46.31 4 Chad Carvin 3:49.74 5 Masato Hirano 3:52.32 6 Rick Say 3:53.20 7 Jon Younghouse 3:53.28 8 Yosuke Ichikawa 3:58.98
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