1998 World Aquatics Championships

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The 1998 World Aquatics Championships or the 8th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Perth, Western Australia, Australia between January 8 and January 17, 1998.

The championships were contested by a total of 1,371 athletes with 16 events each for men and women, held in an outdoor pool. The championships were overshadowed when some Chinese swimmers were sent home after being discovered at Perth Airport with illegal performance enhancing substances, leading to a scuffle with media.

Michael Klim was named as the leading male swimmer of the meet, winning the 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 4x200 m freestyle, 4x100 m medley relay, as well as silver in the 100 m freestyle, 4x100 m freestyle relay and bronze in the 50 m freestyle.

Ian Thorpe became the youngest ever male to become World Champion when he won the 400 m freestyle event aged 15 years and three months.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Open water swimming 1.2 Swimming 1.3 Water Polo 1.3.1 Men's Competition 1.3.2 Women's Competition 1.4 External links

[edit] Results

[edit] Open water swimming

For more details on this topic, see 1998 World Aquatics Championships - Open Water.

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's 5 km	Alexei Akatiev Russia	55:18	Ky Hurst Australia	55:24	Luca Baldini Italy	55:37
Women's 5 km	Erica Rose USA	59:23	Edith van Dijk Netherlands	1:00.58	Peggy Büchse Germany	1:01.05
Men's 25 km	Alexei Akatiev Russia	5:05.42	David Meca Spain	5:07.22	Gabriel Chaillou Argentina	5:07.52
Women's 25 km	Tobie Smith USA	5:31.20	Peggy Büchse Germany	5:32.19	Edith van Dijk Netherlands	5:38.06

[edit] Swimming

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Backstroke
Men's 100 m	Lenny Krayzelburg United States	55.00	Mark Versfeld Canada	55.17	Stev Theloke Germany	55.20
Women's 100 m	Lea Loveless United States	1:01.16	Mai Nakamura Japan	1:01.28	Sandra Völker Germany	1:01.47
Men's 200 m	Lenny Krayzelburg United States	1:58.84	Ralf Braun Germany	1:59.23	Mark Versfeld Canada	1:59.39
Women's 200 m	Roxana Maracineanu France	2:11.26	Dagmar Hase Germany	2:11.45	Mai Nakamura Japan	2:12.22
Breaststroke
Men's 100 m	Fred Deburghgraeve Belgium	1:01.34	Qiliang Zeng China	1:01.76	Kurt Grote United States	1:01.93
Women's 100 m	Kristy Kowal United States	1:08.42	Helen Denman Australia	1:08.51	Lauren Van Oosten Canada	1:08.66
Men's 200 m	Kurt Grote United States	2:13.40	Jean-Christophe Sarnin France	2:13.42	Norbert Rozsa Hungary	2:13.59
Women's 200 m	Agnes Kovacs Hungary	2:25.45	Kristy Kowal United States	2:26.19	Jenna Street United States	2:26.50
Butterfly
Men's 100 m	Michael Klim Australia	52.25	Lars Frölander Sweden	52.79	Geoff Huegill Australia	52.90
Women's 100 m	Jenny Thompson United States	58.46	Ayari Aoyama Japan	58.79	Petria Thomas Australia	58.97
Men's 200 m	Denys Sylant'yev Ukraine	1:56.61	Franck Esposito France	1:56.77	Tom Malchow United States	1:57.26
Women's 200 m	Susie O'Neill Australia	2:07.93	Petria Thomas Australia	2:09.08	Misty Hyman United States	2:09.98
Freestyle
Men's 50 m	Bill Pilczuk United States	22.29	Alexander Popov Russia	22.43	Michael Klim Australia Ricardo Busquets Puerto Rico	22.47
Women's 50 m	Amy Van Dyken United States	25.12	Sandra Völker Germany	25.32	Ying Shan China	25.36
Men's 100 m	Alexander Popov Russia	48.93	Michael Klim Australia	49.20	Lars Frolander Sweden	49.53
Women's 100 m	Jenny Thompson United States	54.95	Martina Moravcova Slovakia	55.09	Ying Shan China	55.10
Men's 200 m	Michael Klim Australia	1:47.41	Massimiliano Rosolino Italy	1:48.30	Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands	1:48.65
Women's 200 m	Claudia Poll Costa Rica	1:58.90	Martina Moravcova Slovakia	1:59.61	Julia Greville Australia	1:59.92
Men's 400 m	Ian Thorpe Australia	3:46.29	Grant Hackett Australia	3:46.44	Paul Palmer Great Britain	3:48.02
Women's 400 m	Yan Chen China	4:06.72	Brooke Bennett United States	4:07.07	Dagmar Hase Germany	4:08.82
Men's 1500 m	Grant Hackett Australia	14:51.70	Emiliano Brembilla Italy	15:00.59	Daniel Kowalski Australia	15:03.94
Women's 800 m	Brooke Bennett United States	8:28.71	Diana Munz United States	8:29.97	Kirsten Vlieghuis Netherlands	8:32.34
Freestyle Relay
Men's 4x100 m	Scott Tucker Neil Walker Jon Olsen Gary Hall Jr United States	3:16.69	Adam Pine Richard Upton Michael Klim Chris Fydler Australia	3:16.97	R Egorov Denis Pimankov V Kulikov Alexander Popov Russia	3:18.45
Women's 4x100 m	Lindsey Farella Barbara Bedford Amy van Dyken Jenny Thompson United States	3:42.11	Sandra Völker Franziska van Almsick Simone Osygus Katrin Meissner Germany	3:43.11	Sarah Ryan Rebecca Creedy Angela Kennedy Susie O'Neill Australia	3:43.71
Men's 4x200 m	Daniel Kowalski Grant Hackett Michael Klim Ian Thorpe Australia	7:12.48	Pieter van den Hoogenband Mark van der Zijden Martijn Zuijdweg Marcel Wouda Netherlands	7:16.77	Paul Palmer G Meadows A Clayton J Salter Great Britain	7:17.33
Women's 4x200 m	Franziska van Almsick Dagmar Hase Silvia Szalai Kerstin Kielgass Germany	8:01.46	Christina Teuscher Lindsay Benko Brooke Bennett Jenny Thompson United States	8:02.88	Julia Greville Anna Windsor Petria Thomas Susie O'Neill Australia	8:04.19
Individual Medley
Men's 200 m	Marcel Wouda Netherlands	2:01.18	Xavier Marchand France	2:01.66	Ron Karnaugh United States	2:01.89
Women's 200 m	Yanyan Wu China	2:10.88	Yan Chen China	2:13.66	Martina Moravcova Slovakia	2:14.26
Men's 400 m	Tom Dolan United States	4:14.95	Marcel Wouda Netherlands	4:15.53	Curtis Myden Canada	4:16.45
Women's 400 m	Yan Chen China	4:36.66	Yana Klochkova Ukraine	4:38.60	Yasuko Tajima Japan	4:39.45
Medley Relay
Men's 4x100 m	Matt Welsh P Rogers Michael Klim Chris Fydler Australia	3:37.98	Lenny Krayzelburg Kurt Grote Neil Walker Gary Hall Jr United States	3:38.56	A Czene Norbert Rozsa P Horvath A Zubor Hungary	3:39.53
Women's 4x100 m	Lea Loveless-Maurer Kristy Kowal Amy van Dyken Jenny Thompson United States	4:01.93	Meredith Smith Helen Denman Petria Thomas Susie O'Neill Australia	4:05.12	Mai Nakamura Masami Tanaka Ayari Aoyama Sunika Minamoto Japan	4:06.27

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] Men's Competition

For more details on this topic, see 1998 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship.

EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Team	Spain	Hungary	Yugoslavia

[edit] Women's Competition

For more details on this topic, see 1998 FINA Women's World Water Polo Championship.

EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Team	Italy	Netherlands	Australia

[edit] External links

• Swim Rankings results

Preceded by 1994 World Aquatics Championships (Rome, Italy)

FINA World Aquatics Championships

Succeeded by 2001 World Aquatics Championships (Fukuoka, Japan)

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