1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
# 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 13 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Tom Dolan of US.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle swimming.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

| World record | Jani Sievinen (FIN) | 1:58.16 | Rome, Italy | September 11, 1994 |
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| Pan Pacific Championships record | David Wharton (USA) | 2:00.11 | Tokyo, Japan | August 20, 1989 |

## Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

| KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | CR | Championships record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
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### Heats

The first round was held on August 13.

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ron Karnaugh | United States | 2:02.59 | QA |
| 2 | Matthew Dunn | Australia | 2:02.89 | QA |
| 3 | Curtis Myden | Canada | 2:03.27 | QA |
| 4 | Wang Wei | China | 2:03.60 | QA |
| 5 | Josh Davis | United States | 2:03.91 | QA |
| 6 | Mark Versfeld | Canada | 2:04.44 | QA |
| 7 | Tatsuya Kinugasa | Japan | 2:04.46 | QA |
| 8 | Steven Brown | United States | 2:05.06 | QA |
| 9 | Philip Weiss | Canada | 2:05.10 | QB |
| 10 | Theo Verster | South Africa | 2:05.12 | QB |
| 11 | Robert van der Zant | Australia | 2:05.42 | QB |
| 12 | Zane King | Australia | 2:05.85 | QB |
| 13 | Jo Yoshimi | Japan | 2:05.95 | QB |
| 14 | Ian Thorpe | Australia | 2:06.26 | QB |
| 15 | Trent Steed | Australia | 2:06.33 | QB |
| 16 | Nate Dusing | United States | 2:06.50 | QB |
| 17 | Oliver Young | New Zealand | 2:06.57 | |
| 18 | Casey Barrett | Canada | 2:08.11 | |
| 19 | Nicholas Sheeran | New Zealand | 2:10.34 | |
| 20 | Oleg Tsvetkovskiy | Uzbekistan | 2:12.07 | |

### B Final

The B final was held on August 13.

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 9 | Zane King | Australia | 2:03.95 |
| 10 | Philip Weiss | Canada | 2:04.18 |
| 11 | Steven Brown | United States | 2:05.23 |
| 12 | Robert van der Zant | Australia | 2:05.73 |
| 13 | Jo Yoshimi | Japan | 2:05.92 |
| 14 | Oliver Young | New Zealand | 2:08.28 |
| 15 | Nicholas Sheeran | New Zealand | 2:08.37 |
| 16 | Oleg Tsvetkovskiy | Uzbekistan | 2:10.99 |

### A Final

The A final was held on August 13.

| Rank | Lane | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Matthew Dunn | Australia | 2:01.14 |
| | Curtis Myden | Canada | 2:01.83 |
| | Ron Karnaugh | United States | 2:02.25 |
| 4 | Josh Davis | United States | 2:02.90 |
| 5 | Wang Wei | China | 2:03.02 |
| 6 | Tatsuya Kinugasa | Japan | 2:04.58 |
| 7 | Mark Versfeld | Canada | 2:04.91 |
| 8 | Theo Verster | South Africa | 2:04.94 |
