The first edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships is a long course swimming event first held in 1985. The meet was initially staged biennially , to allow for an international championship-level meet in the non-Olympic and non-World Championships years...

, a long course (50 m) event, was held in 1985 in Tokyo, Japan after discussions between the so called Charter Nations Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, United States

United States

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, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

determined that an opportunity to come together for a world class competition would benefit the development of the Pan Pacific region and the Charter Nations themselves. The inaugural event took place at the Yoyogi National Olympic Swimming Pool, from 15–18 August 1985.

Men's events

50 m freestyle		22.73		23.11		23.44
100 m freestyle		49.17		50.43		51.17
200 m freestyle		1:49.29		1:50.19		1:50.56
400 m freestyle		3:52.13		3:52.40		3:54.41
1500 m freestyle		15:19.55		15:19.74		15:27.76
100 m backstroke		56.46		56.60		57.06
200 m backstroke		2:01.68		2:01.83		2:02.35
100 m breaststroke		1:02.42		1:03.40		1:03.64
200 m breaststroke		2:16.74		2:18.01		2:21.29
100 m butterfly		53.69		53.78		54.57
200 m butterfly		1:58.74		1:59.22		1:59.89
200 m individual medley		2:04.04		2:05.62		2:06.03
400 m individual medley		4:20.37		4:24.27		4:24.27
4×100 m freestyle relay		3:17.08 WR		3:24.49		3:24.64
4×200 m freestyle relay		7:17.63		7:31.54		7:35.74
4×100 m medley relay		3:38.28 WR		3:45.54		3:45.83

Women's events

50 m freestyle		26.19		26.47		26.57
100 m freestyle		56.36		56.75		57.51
200 m freestyle		2:01.52		2:01.74		2:01.87
400 m freestyle		4:13.16		4:15.67		4:16.07
800 m freestyle		8:36.92		8:37.42		8:41.95
100 m backstroke		1:02.88		1:03.20		1:04.62
200 m backstroke		2:13.06		2:14.97		2:17.01
100 m breaststroke		1:10.25		1:10.57		1:10.97
200 m breaststroke		2:29.95		2:30.73		2:33.97
100 m butterfly		59.16		1:01.12		1:01.40
200 m butterfly		2:07.33		2:11.93		2:13.46=
200 m individual medley		2:15.94=		2:15.94=		2:19.82
400 m individual medley		4:44.45		4:46.79		4:53.80
4×100 m freestyle relay		3:45.65		3:49.74		3:50.19
4×200 m freestyle relay		8:06.74		8:11.26		8:19.87
4×100 m medley relay		4:13.05		4:13.30		4:17.13