Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships | |
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Host city | Perth, Australia |
Events | 6 |
← 1994 2001 → |
1998 FINA World Championships | ||
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Diving | ||
Individual | ||
1 m | men | women |
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
Open water swimming | ||
Single | ||
5 km | men | women |
5 km | team rating | |
25 km | men | women |
25 km | team rating | |
Swimming | ||
Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
4×200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
Synchronised swimming | ||
Solo | women | |
Duet | women | |
Team | women | |
Water polo | ||
Tournament | men | women |
The Open Water Swimming events at the 8th FINA World Aquatics Championships were swum in the ocean off Perth, Western Australia on January 6 and 11, 1998. The discipline featured 4 events: a 5-kilometer race, or "5K", for males and females, and a 25-kilometer race (25K) for males and females. It was the first time the 5K was raced a World Championships.[1] The races featured 80 swimmers from 26 nations.[1]
Results
[edit]Men
[edit]Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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5K |
Aleksey Akatyev ![]() |
55:18.6 | Ky Hurst ![]() |
55:24.9 | Luca Baldini ![]() |
55:37.4 |
25K |
Aleksey Akatyev ![]() |
5:05:42.1 | David Meca ![]() |
5:07:22.9 | Gabriel Chaillou ![]() |
5:07:52.6 |
Women
[edit]Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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5K |
Erica Rose ![]() |
59:23.5 | Edith van Dijk ![]() |
1:00:58.5 | Peggy Büchse ![]() |
1:01:05.8 |
25K |
Tobie Smith ![]() |
5:31:20.1 | Peggy Büchse ![]() |
5:32:19.2 | Edith van Dijk ![]() |
5:38.06.9 |
Team
[edit]Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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5K |
![]() John Flanagan Austin Ramirez Erica Rose |
2:52:12.2 | ![]() Aleksey Akatyev Evgueni Bezroutchenko Olga Gouseva |
2:52:16.7 | ![]() Luca Baldini Fabio Venturini Valeria Casprini |
2:52:41.6 |
25K |
![]() Claudio Gargaro Fabrizio Pescatori Valeria Casprini |
16:10:18.2 | ![]() Grant Robinson Mark Saliba Tracey Knowles |
16:22:54.3 | ![]() Tobie Smith Nathan Stooke Chuck Wiley |
16:46:13.3 |
Medal standings
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b HistoFINA: Open Water Swimming Archived 2013-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Updated by FINA in February 2013; retrieved 2013-06-03.