The 1997 Pacific Curling Championships were held from December 3 to 7 at the Karuizawa Kazakoshi Park Arena in Karuizawa, Japan.
Australia won the men's event over Japan (it was the seventh Pacific title for the Australian men). On the women's side, Japan defeated New Zealand in the final (it was the sixth Pacific title for the Japanese women).
By virtue of winning, the Australian men's team and the Japanese women's team qualified for the 1998 World and Curling Championships in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
Men
Teams Country Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Curling club Hugh Millikin John Theriault Stephen Johns Trevor Schumm Sydney Harbour CC, Sydney Yoshiyuki Ohmiya Hirohumi Kudo Hiroshi Sato Makoto Tsuruga Hisaaki Nakamine Song He-dong Lim Sung-min Kang Il-jin Kim Young-tae Jun Sung-il Kim Kyung-doo Sean Becker Hans Frauenlob Ross A. Stevens Lorne De Pape Darren Carson Edwin Harley
Round Robin PlaceCountrySkip WinsLosses 1 Hugh Millikin * 6:4 6:513:211:215:113:3 6 0 2 Yoshiyuki Ohmiya 4:6 5:6 * 7:5 8:418:012:3 4 2 3 Sean Becker2:132:11 5:7 4:8 * 10:410:3 2 4 4 Song He-dong1:153:130:183:124:103:10 * 0 6 Teams to final
Final
Final standings Place Country Skip GP W L Hugh Millikin 7 7 0 Yoshiyuki Ohmiya 7 4 3 Sean Becker 6 2 4 4 Song He-dong 6 0 6
Women
Teams Country Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Mayumi Ohkutsu Akiko Katoh Yukari Kondo Akemi Niwa Yoko Mimura Lee Hyun-jung Choi Yun-mi Jang Ji-young Park Sun-nam Yoon Hye-kyung Helen Greer Lisa Gavreau Patsy Inder Kylie Petherick Karen Rawcliffe
Round Robin PlaceCountrySkip WinsLosses 1 Mayumi Ohkutsu * 9:512:121:118:2 4 0 2 Helen Greer 5:91:12 * 11:2 8:2 2 2 3 Lee Hyun-jung1:212:182:11 2:8 * 0 4 Teams to final
Final
Final standings Place Country Skip GP W L Mayumi Ohkutsu 5 5 0 Helen Greer 5 2 3 Lee Hyun-jung 4 0 4
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