The 21st World Rowing Championships were held between September 9 and 13, 1998 in Cologne, Germany. The World Rowing Championships are organized by FISA - International Rowing Federation.
| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Men's Events | ||||||
| M1x | New Zealand Rob Waddell |
6:39.65 | Switzerland Xeno Müller |
6:41.55 | Czech Republic Václav Chalupa |
6:43.89 |
| M2x | Germany Andreas Hajek, Stephan Volkert |
6:13.20 | Norway Steffen Størseth, Kjetil Undset |
6:14.49 | Poland Marek Kolbowicz, Adam Korol |
6:15.50 |
| M4x | Italy Agostino Abbagnale, Alessandro Corona, Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori |
5:51.19 | Germany Marco Geisler, Marcel Hacker, Sebastian Mayer, Stefan Röhnert |
5:56.13 | Austria Raphael Hartl, Norbert Lambing, Andreas Nader, Horst Nussbaumer |
5:57.91 |
| M2+ | Australia Nick Green, James Tomkins, Brett Hayman (c) |
6:45.01 | Italy Gioacchino Cascone, Rosario Gioia, Gianluca Barattolo (c) |
6:47.71 | United States Nicholas Anderson , Kurt Borcherding , Philip Henry (c) |
6:50.06 |
| M2- | Germany Detlef Kirchhoff, Robert Sens |
6:22.32 | Australia Drew Ginn, Mike McKay |
6:24.23 | Yugoslavia Nikola Stojić, Đorđe Višacki |
6:25.52 |
| M4+ | Australia Drew Ginn, Nick Green, Mike McKay, James Tomkins, Brett Hayman (c) |
6:09.43 | Croatia Denis Boban, Igor Boraska, Tihomir Franković, Siniša Skelin, Ratko Cvitanić (c) |
6:12.97 | Italy Marco Bizzozero, Dario Lari, Giuseppe Musemeci, Pasquale Panzarino, Daniele Sorice (c) |
6:13.59 |
| M4- | Great Britain James Cracknell, Tim Foster, Matthew Pinsent, Steve Redgrave |
5:48.06 | France Gilles Bosguet, Daniel Fauche, Francois Meurillon, Anthony Perrot |
5:49.44 | Italy Lorenzo Carboncini, Riccardo Dei Rossi, Walter Molea, Carlo Mornati |
5:49.46 |
| M8+ | United States Christian Ahrens, Peter Collins, Robert Kaehler, Jeffrey Klepacki, Garrett Miller, Bryan Volpenhein, Tom Welsh, Michael Wherley, Peter Cipollone (c) |
5:38.78 | Germany Joerg Diessner, Stefan Forster, Stefan Heinze, Kai Horl, Thomas Jung, Ike Landvoigt, Enrico Schnabel, Marc Weber, Peter Thiede (c) |
5:39.48 | Romania Dorin Alupei, Andrei Banica, Cornel Nemtoc, Gheorghe Pirvan, Neculai Taga, Viorel Talapan, Valentin Tobu, Florian Tudor, Dumitru Raducanu (c) |
5:40.27 |
| LM1x | Italy Stefano Basalini |
6:48.90 | Czech Republic Michal Vabrousek |
6:50.98 | Denmark Karsten Nielsen |
6:51.52 |
| LM2x | Poland Tomasz Kucharski, Robert Sycz |
6:19.11 | Italy Michelangelo Crispi, Leonardo Pettinari |
6:21.02 | Switzerland Markus Gier , Michael Gier |
6:22.35 |
| LM4x | Italy Lorenzo Bertini, Elia Luini, Paolo Pittino, Franco Sancassani |
5:57.68 | Germany Markus Baumann, Alexander Lutz, Franz Mayer, Christian Von Gyldenfeldt |
5:58.59 | United States Conal Groom, Sean Groom, Ransom Weaver, Coop Wessels |
6:02.74 |
| LM2- | France Jean-Christophe Bette, Vincent Montabonel |
6:40.53 | Italy Catello Amarante, Carlo Gaddi |
6:41.75 | Chile Miguel Cerda Silva, Christian Yantani Garces |
6:44.00 |
| LM4- | Denmark Eskild Ebbesen, Thomas Ebert, Victor Feddersen, Thomas Poulsen |
6:01.53 | France Xavier Dirfman, Yves Hocdé, Frederic Pinon, Laurent Porchier |
6:02.37 | Australia Darren Balmforth, Simon Burgess, Anthony Edwards, Robert Richards |
6:04.43 |
| LM8+ | Germany Matthias Eedeler, Oliver Ibielski, Andreas Laiss, Stefan Locher, Daniel Rosenberger, Bernhard Stomporowski, Manuel Strauch, Vladimir Vukelic, Olaf Kaska (c) |
5:36.28 | United States Michael Altmann, William Carlucci, John Cashman, Eric Gillett, Sean Kammann, William Plifka, Martin Schwartz, Andrea Trento, Sean Mulligan (c) |
5:36.56 | Italy Antonello Aliberti, Carlo Artico, Filippo Dodero, Daniele Gilardoni, Andrea Lupini, Giuseppe Manzo, Salvatore Messina, Massimo Guglielmi, Antonio Cirillo (c) |
5:37.06 |
| Women's Events | ||||||
| W1x | Russia Irina Fedotova |
7:25.09 | Germany Katrin Rutschow |
7:26.67 | Sweden Maria Brandin |
7:30.99 |
| W2x | Great Britain Miriam Batten, Gillian Linsday |
6:48.85 | Netherlands Pieta van Dishoeck, Eeke van Nes |
6:49.75 | Romania Doina Ignat, Ioana Olteanu |
6:50.49 |
| W4x | Germany Kathrin Boron, Manuela Lutze, Jana Thieme, Christiane Will |
6:24.38 | Russia Oksana Dorodnova, Yuliya Levina, Larisa Merk, Inna Moisseyeva |
6:26.66 | Australia Marina Hatzakis, Sally Newmarch, Jane Robinson, Bronwyn Roye |
6:32.11 |
| W2- | Canada Alison Korn, Emma Robinson |
7:05.19 | Great Britain Cath Bishop, Dot Blackie |
7:08.12 | United States Amy Marie Martin, Linda Miller |
7:08.76 |
| W4- | Ukraine Yevgeniia Andreieva, Tatyana Fesenko, Nina Proskura, Tetyana Savchenko |
6:30.63 | Canada Buffy-Lynne Williams-Alexander, Laryssa Biesenthal, Marnie McBean , Kubet Weston |
6:31.90 | Netherlands Tessa Zwolle-Appeldoorn, Nelleke Penninx, Carin Ter Beek, Christine Vink |
6:32.73 |
| W8+ | Romania Angela Cazac, Veronica Cochela-Cogeanu, Georgeta Damian-Andrunache, Magdalena Dumitrache, Liliana Gafencu, Doina Ignat , Ioana Olteanu, Viorica Susanu, Elena Georgescu-Nedelc (c) |
6:14.62 | United States Jennifer Dore-Terhaar, Torrey Folk, Amy Fuller, Sarah Jones, Katherine Maloney, Lianne Nelson-Bennion, Sally Scovel, Wendy Wilbur, Rajanya Shah (c) |
6:15.81 | Canada Buffy-Lynne Williams-Alexander, Laryssa Biesenthal, Heather Davis, Alison Korn, Marnie McBean, Emma Robinson, Dorota Urbaniak, Kubet Weston, Lesley Thompson-Willie (c) |
6:18.25 |
| LW1x | Switzerland Pia Vogel |
7:41.01 | France Benedicte Dorfman-Luzuy |
7:42.01 | Argentina Maria Gariosoain |
7:44.40 |
| LW2x | United States Christine Smith-Collins, Sarah Garner |
7:03.73 | Germany Claudia Blasberg, Karin Stephan |
7:06.53 | Romania Angela Alupei-Tamas, Camelia Macoviviuc |
7:09.45 |
| LW4x | Germany Nicole Faust, Anna Kleinz, Christine Morawitz, Valerie Viehoff |
6:40.99 | United States Cassandra Cunningham, Sara Den Besten, Cesar Peirano, Lisa Schlenker |
6:42.97 | Greece Chrysi Biskitzi, Angeliki Gkremou, Evangelia Kokkinou, Irini Zora |
6:43.27 |
| LW2- | Great Britain Juliet Machan, Jo Nitsch |
7:29.42 | Argentina Patricia Conte, Elina Urbano |
7:32.51 | United States Michelle Borkhuis, Linda Muri |
7:37.50 |
| Place | Nation | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | Italy | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | United States | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | Australia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | France | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Romania | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 10 | Russia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Denmark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 13 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Argentina | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 18 | Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 20 | Chile | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 24 | 24 | 24 | 72 | |
| Preceded by 1997 |
World Rowing Championships 1998 |
Succeeded by 1999 |