Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 1998 FINA World Championships
Date 15 January 1998
Competitors 41 from 32 nations
Winning time 3 minute 46.29 seconds
Medalists
  Ian Thorpe   Australia
  Grant Hackett   Australia
  Paul Palmer   Great Britain
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1998 FINA
World Championships
in Perth, Australia
Diving
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Open water swimming
5 km men women
25 km men women
Team team
Swimming (long course)
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
Team men women
Main article: Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

The finals and the qualifying heats of the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Thursday 15 January 1998 in Perth, Australia.

Contents

Heats

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 Emiliano Brembilla  Italy 3:50.61
2 6 Ian Thorpe  Australia 3:51.42
3 5 Grant Hackett  Australia 3:51.68
4 5 Paul Palmer  Great Britain 3:51.71
5 4 Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy 3:51.93
6 4 Jörg Hoffman  Germany 3:52.15
7 5 Ihor Snitko  Ukraine 3:52.24
8 4 Danyon Loader  New Zealand 3:52.44
9 6 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 3:53.75
10 4 John Piersma  United States 3:54.47
11 5 Masato Hirano  Japan 3:55.28
12 5 Jacob Cartensen  Denmark 3:55.38
13 6 Tyler Painter  United States 3:55.61
14 6 Luiz Lima  Brazil 3:55.81
15 6 Béla Szabados  Hungary 3:57.12
16 3 Andrei Cecan  Moldova 3:57.32
17 5 Sergi Roure  Spain 3:57.42
18 6 Frederik Hviid  Spain 3:57.49
19 4 Alexei Stepanov  Russia 3:58.23
20 4 Torlarp Sethsothorn  Thailand 3:58.71
21 6 Jure Bucar  Slovenia 3:59.51
22 3 Mark Kwok  Hong Kong 4:00.94
23 4 Anders Jensen  Denmark 4:01.13
24 5 Dimitris Manganas  Greece 4:01.66
25 3 Scott Cameron  New Zealand 4:01.82
26 4 Denys Zavhorodniy  Ukraine 4:03.65
27 5 Jin Hao  China 4:04.07
28 3 Li Yun Lun  Chinese Taipei 4:05.80
29 3 Tom Stoltz  Luxembourg 4:06.08
30 3 Ramon Valle  Honduras 4:07.13
31 2 Alex Fong  Hong Kong 4:08.09
32 3 Sng Ju Wei  Singapore 4:09.03
33 3 Tseng Cheng Hua  Chinese Taipei 4:09.07
34 2 Kurt Niehaus  Costa Rica 4:11.84
35 2 Diego Mularoni  San Marino 4:15.69
36 2 Peter Vasiliev  Uzbekistan 4:16.28
37 2 Fadi Kouzma  Syria 4:25.05
38 2 Yann Rambert  Mauritius 4:26.75
39 2 Michael Watson  Guyana 5:27.11
– 1 Pedro Bonnelly  Dominican Republic DNS
– 1 Sebastien Paddington  Trinidad and Tobago DNS

B Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
9 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 3:50.95
10 Luiz Lima  Brazil 3:52.97
11 John Piersma  United States 3:53.32
12 Jacob Carstensen  Denmark 3:55.86
13 Masato Hirano  Japan 3:56.63
14 Béla Szabados  Hungary 3:56.66
15 Andrei Cecan  Moldova 3:56.68
16 Tyler Painter  United States 3:57.30

A Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Ian Thorpe  Australia 3:46.29
Grant Hackett  Australia 3:46.44
Paul Palmer  Great Britain 3:48.02
4 Emiliano Brembilla  Italy 3:48.60
5 Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy 3:48.89
6 Igor Snitko  Ukraine 3:50.16
7 Jörg Hoffmann  Germany 3:51.70
8 Danyon Loader  New Zealand 3:52.26

See also

References