1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly

Men's 100 metre butterfly at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
Venue	NISHI Civic Pool
Dates	August 12, 1997 (heats & finals)
Competitors	21 from 10 nations
Winning time	52.76
Medalists
Neil Walker   United States   Michael Klim   Australia   Nate Dusing   United States

The men's 100 metre butterfly competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the NISHI Civic Pool. The last champion was Scott Miller of Australia.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly.

Records

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

World record	Denis Pankratov (RUS)	52.27	Atlanta, United States	July 24, 1996
Pan Pacific Championships record	Scott Miller (AUS)	53.07	Atlanta, United States	August 12, 1995

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

Heats

The first round was held on August 12.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Neil Walker	United States	53.04	QA, CR
2	Michael Klim	Australia	53.12	QA
3	Nate Dusing	United States	53.13	QA
4	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	53.99	QA
5	John Hargis	United States	54.00	QA
6	Scott Goodman	Australia	54.02	QA
7	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	54.05	QA
8	Stephen Clarke	Canada	54.36	QA
9	Edward Parenti	Canada	54.48	QB
10	Theo Verster	South Africa	54.53	QB
11	Junya Kawakami	Japan	54.64	QB
12	Yukihiro Matsushita	Japan	55.15	QB
13	Steven Brown	United States	55.45	QB
14	Casey Barrett	Canada	55.97	QB
15	Sergio Garza	Mexico	56.08	QB
16	Jiang Chengji	China	56.15	QB
17	Nicholas Sheeran	New Zealand	56.21
18	Ravil Nachaev	Uzbekistan	56.30
19	Hisayoshi Tanaka	Japan	56.31
20	John Steel	New Zealand	56.50
21	Philip Weiss	Canada	56.82

B Final

The B final was held on August 12.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	John Hargis	United States	54.50
10	Junya Kawakami	Japan	54.82
11	Yukihiro Matsushita	Japan	55.47
12	John Steel	New Zealand	55.64
13	Sergio Garza	Mexico	56.11
14	Casey Barrett	Canada	56.19
15	Nicholas Sheeran	New Zealand	57.08
-	Ravil Nachaev	Uzbekistan	DNS

A Final

The A final was held on August 12.

Rank	Lane	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Neil Walker	United States	52.76	CR
	Michael Klim	Australia	52.94
	Nate Dusing	United States	53.26
4	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	53.56
5	Scott Goodman	Australia	54.18
6	Edward Parenti	Canada	54.19
7	Stephen Clarke	Canada	54.54
8	Theo Verster	South Africa	54.58