1998 World Aquatics Championships

8th FINA World Championships
8th FINA World Championships
Host city	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Date(s)	8–17 January 1998
	← 1994 Rome 2001 Fukuoka →

The 8th FINA World Championships or the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held from 8 to 17 January 1998 in Perth, Western Australia. The championships features competition in all five of FINA's disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, Synchronised swimming and Open Water Swimming. The main venue for competition was Challenge Stadium, which hosted all disciplines except the Open Water events.

Local athlete Michael Klim was named as the leading male swimmer of the meet, winning the 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 4×200 m freestyle, 4×100 m medley relay, as well as silver in the 100 m freestyle, 4×100 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.

Doping

During a routine customs check on Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan's luggage, enough human growth hormone was discovered to supply the entire women's swimming team for the duration of the championships.^[1] Only Yuan was sanctioned for the incident, with speculation that this was connected to the nomination of Juan Antonio Samaranch by China for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.^[2] Tests in Perth also found the presence of the banned diuretic masking agent triamterine in the urine of four swimmers, Wang Luna, Yi Zhang, Huijue Cai and Wei Wang.^[3] The swimmers were suspended from competition for two years, with three coaches associated with the swimmers, Zhi Cheng, Hiuqin Xu and Zhi Cheng each suspended for three months.^[3]

Medal table

* Host nation (Australia)

Results

Diving

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 m springboard	Zhuocheng Yu (CHN)	Troy Dumais (USA)	Holger Schlepps (GER)
3 m springboard	Dmitri Sautin (RUS)	Yilin Zhou (CHN)	Vassili Lisovski (RUS)
10 m platform	Dmitri Sautin (RUS)	Tian Liang (CHN)	Jan Hempel (GER)
3 m springboard synchro	Hao Xu (CHN) Zhuocheng Yu (CHN)	Alexander Mesch (GER) Holger Schlepps (GER)	Dean Pullar (AUS) Shannon Roy (AUS)
10 m platform synchro	Tian Liang (CHN) Sun Shuwei (CHN)	Jan Hempel (GER) Michael Kühne (GER)	Igor Lukashin (RUS) Aleksandr Varlamov (RUS)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 m springboard	Irina Lashko (RUS)	Vera Ilyina (RUS)	Zhang Jing (CHN)
3 m springboard	Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS)	Jingjing Guo (CHN)	Chantelle Michell (AUS)
10 m platform	Olena Zhupina (UKR)	Yuyan Cai (CHN)	Li Chen (CHN)
3 m springboard synchro	Irina Lashko (RUS) Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS)	Lang Rao (CHN) Rongjuan Li (CHN)	Tracy Bonner (USA) Kathy Pesek (USA)
10 m platform synchro	Olena Zhupina (UKR) Svitlana Serbina (UKR)	Yuyan Cai (CHN) Li Chen (CHN)	Kristin Link (USA) Lindsay Long (USA)

Open water swimming

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Aleksey Akatyev (RUS)	Ky Hurst (AUS)	Luca Baldini (ITA)
25 km	Aleksey Akatyev (RUS)	David Meca (ESP)	Gabriel Chaillou (ARG)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Erica Rose (USA)	Edith van Dijk (NED)	Peggy Büchse (GER)
25 km	Tobie Smith (USA)	Peggy Büchse (GER)	Edith van Dijk (NED)

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	United States (USA) John Flanagan Austin Ramirez Erica Rose	Russia (RUS) Aleksey Akatyev Yevgeny Bezruchenko Olga Gouseva	Italy (ITA) Luca Baldini Fabio Venturini Valeria Casprini
25 km	Italy (ITA) Claudio Gargaro Fabrizio Pescatori Valeria Casprini	Australia (AUS) Grant Robinson Mark Saliba Tracey Knowles	United States (USA) Tobie Smith Nathan Stooke Chuck Wiley

Swimming

Synchronised swimming

Water polo

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Spain	Hungary	Yugoslavia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Italy	Netherlands	Australia

References

^ "Chinese Olympians subjected to routine doping". The Sydney morning Herald. 28 July 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
^ Maxwell J. Mehlman (21 May 2009). The Price of Perfection: Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement. JHU Press. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-0-8018-9263-9. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b Cecil Colwin (2002). Breakthrough Swimming. Human Kinetics. pp. 213–. ISBN 978-0-7360-3777-8. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

External links

Swim Rankings results

[SMHJul28-1] "Chinese Olympians subjected to routine doping". The Sydney morning Herald. 28 July 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

[Mehlman2009-2] Maxwell J. Mehlman (21 May 2009). The Price of Perfection: Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement. JHU Press. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-0-8018-9263-9. Retrieved 31 July 2012.

[Colwin2002-3] Cecil Colwin (2002). Breakthrough Swimming. Human Kinetics. pp. 213–. ISBN 978-0-7360-3777-8. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	17	6	9	32
2	Russia	11	3	3	17
3	Australia*	7	8	10	25
4	China	6	8	4	18
5	Ukraine	3	1	0	4
6	Italy	2	2	2	6
7	Germany	1	7	6	14
8	Netherlands	1	4	3	8
9	France	1	4	1	6
10	Hungary	1	1	2	4
11	Spain	1	1	0	2
12	Belgium	1	0	0	1
12	Costa Rica	1	0	0	1
14	Japan	0	4	4	8
15	Slovakia	0	2	1	3
16	Canada	0	1	3	4
17	Sweden	0	1	1	2
18	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
19	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		53	53	54	160

1998 FINA World Championships
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