The men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Daniel Kowalski 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 record3:49.43Kobe, JapanAugust 14, 1993
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 12.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Grant Hackett 3:52.42 QA 2 Chad Carvin 3:53.11 QA 3 John Piersma 3:53.74 QA 4 Ian Thorpe 3:55.10 QA 5 Uğur Taner 3:55.24 QA 6 Mark Johnston 3:56.59 QA 7 Danyon Loader 3:56.83 QA 8 Jason Samuelson 3:56.96 QA 9 Tyler Painter 3:57.15 QB 10 Torlarp Sethsothorn 3:57.26 QB 11 Ryk Neethling 3:57.60 QB 12 Yosuke Ichikawa 3:57.68 QB 13 Hisato Yasui 3:57.78 QB 14 Masato Hirano 3:58.01 QB 15 Tom Malchow 3:58.54 QB 16 Michael McWha 3:59.03 QB 17 Scott Cameron 4:02.41 18 Woo Chul 4:02.58 19 Kwok Kin Ming 4:02.59 20 Matthew Smith 4:02.72 21 Brent Sallee 4:04.24 22 Liam Weseloh 4:06.23
B Final The B final was held on August 12.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9 Uğur Taner 3:53.59 10 Jason Samuelson 3:56.02 11 Yosuke Ichikawa 3:56.55 12 Michael McWha 3:56.96 13 Scott Cameron 3:59.59 14 Masato Hirano 3:59.72 15 Hisato Yasui 4:00.52 15 Woo Chul 4:00.52
A Final The A final was held on August 12. Rank Lane Nationality Time Notes Grant Hackett 3:47.27 CR Ian Thorpe 3:49.64 Chad Carvin 3:50.40 4 John Piersma 3:51.81 5 Danyon Loader 3:54.10 6 Ryk Neethling 3:54.58 7 Mark Johnston 3:55.37 8 Torlarp Sethsothorn 3:55.84
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