The men's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 11 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Gary Hall, Jr. of US.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.Swimming technical manual
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows: World record48.21Monte Carlo, MonacoJune 18, 1994Pan Pacific Championships record49.17Tokyo, JapanAugust 16, 1985
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 11.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Michael Klim 49.52 QA, OC 2 Ricardo Busquets 50.00 QA 3 Neil Walker 50.06 QA 4 Scott Tucker 50.15 QA 5 Stephen Clarke 50.27 QA 6 Jon Olsen 50.31 QA 7 Brad Schumacher 50.36 QA 8 David Fox 50.45 QA 9 Uğur Taner 50.61 QB 10 Ian van der Wal 50.72 QB 11 Sion Brinn 50.82 QB 12 Craig Hutchison 50.87 QB 12 Richard Upton 50.87 QB 14 John Steel 51.03 QB 15 Trent Bray 51.06 QB 16 Scott Logan 51.10 QB 17 Shunsuke Ito 51.13 18 Nicholas Tongue 51.31 19 Yukihiro Matsushita 51.38 20 Jiang Chengji 51.67 20 Nate Dusing 51.67 20 Brendon Dedekind 51.67 23 Dustin Hersee 51.75
B Final The B final was held on August 11.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9 Jon Olsen 49.95 10 Richard Upton 51.13 11 John Steel 51.18 11 Nicholas Tongue 51.18 13 Trent Bray 51.27 14 Shunsuke Ito 51.36 15 Yukihiro Matsushita 51.38 16 Jiang Chengji 51.50
A Final The A final was held on August 11. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Michael Klim 49.46 OC Neil Walker 49.57 Ricardo Busquets 49.94 4 Stephen Clarke 50.06 NR 5 Scott Tucker 50.17 6 Sion Brinn 50.32 7 Ian van der Wal 50.71 8 Craig Hutchison 51.21
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