Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

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Men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay
at the 1998 FINA World Championships
Date13 January 1998
Teams12
Winning time7 minutes 12.48 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    Australia
silver medal    Netherlands
bronze medal    Great Britain
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The final and the qualifying heats of the men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Tuesday 13 January 1998 in Perth, Western Australia.

Final

Rank Team Time
 AUSTRALIA
Michael Klim
Grant Hackett
Ian Thorpe
Daniel Kowalski
7:12.48 CR
1:47.67
1:48.41
1:47.67
1:48.73
 NETHERLANDS
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Mark van der Zijden
Martijn Zuijdweg
Marcel Wouda
7:16.77
1:48.36
1:50.60
1:49.75
1:48.06
 GREAT BRITAIN
Paul Palmer
Gavin Meadows
Andrew Clayton
James Salter
7:17.33
1:49.72
1:48.61
1:50.38
1:48.62
4  GERMANY
Christian Keller
Stefan Pohl
Jörg Hoffmann
Steffen Zesner
7:19.70
1:50.27
1:49.91
1:50.12
1:49.40
5  UNITED STATES
Uğur Taner
Josh Davis
Tom Malchow
Tom Dolan
7:19.97
1:48.83
1:48.16
1:49.69
1:53.29
6  DENMARK
Jeppe Nielsen
Jacob Carstensen
Jacob Rasmussen
Anders Jensen
7:26.07
1:52.71
1:49.49
1:50.65
1:53.22
7  RUSSIA
Dimitri Kuzmin
Alexei Stepanov
Maxim Korshunov
Dimitri Chernyshev
7:27.95
1:52.13
1:50.68
1:52.91
1:52.23
8  SWEDEN
Anders Lyrbring
Johan Walberg
Petter Lindh
Max von Bodungen
7:31.71
1:51.71
1:52.95
1:51.93
1:55.12

Qualifying heats

Heat 1

Rank Team Time
1  AUSTRALIA
Daniel Kowalski
Grant Hackett
Ian Thorpe
Anthony Rogis
7:18.66
2  GERMANY
Christian Keller
Stefan Herbst
Torsten Spanneberg
Stefan Pohl
7:22.87
3  NETHERLANDS
Mark van der Zijden
Bas-Ido Wennekes
Johan Kenkhuis
Martijn Zuijdweg
7:25.20
4  DENMARK
Jeppe Nielsen
Jacob Carstensen
Jacob Rasmussen
Anders Jensen
7:25.46
5  NEW ZEALAND
Trent Bray
Scott Cameron
Nicholas Tongue
Danyon Loader
7:31.25
6  CHINESE TAIPEI
Li-Yun Lun
Hung-Chien Chih
Huang-Chih Yung
Tseng-Cheng Hua
8:01.87

Heat 2

Rank Team Time
1  UNITED STATES
Uğur Taner
John Piersma
Trevor Runberg
Scott Tucker
7:20.48
2  GREAT BRITAIN
James Salter
Andrew Clayton
Mark Stevens
Gavin Meadows
7:23.62
3  RUSSIA
Dimitri Chernyshev
Alexei Stepanov
Dimitri Kuzmin
Maxim Korshunov
7:27.32
4  SWEDEN
Anders Lyrbring
Johan Walberg
Petter Lindh
Max von Bodungen
7:28.36
5  UZBEKISTAN
Sergey Erilin
Ravil Nachaev
Peter Vasiliev
Oleg Pukhnaty
8:02.51
 ITALY
Emiliano Brembilla
Simone Cercato
Moreno Gallina
Massimiliano Rosolino
DSQ

See also

References

  • "8th FINA World Swimming Championships". SwimNews.com.
  • "1998 FINA World Championships (LCM)". USA Swimming.