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.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Pacific Championships history

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, 1994Pan 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

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Grant Hackett 7:50.30 Chad Carvin 7:57.82 Tyler Painter 8:01.17 4 Masato Hirano 8:06.81 5 Tim Siciliano 8:07.31 6 Jason Samuelson 8:08.80 7 Torlarp Sethsothorn 8:11.02 8 Hisato Yasui 8:19.43 9 Matthew Smith 8:22.69

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