Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
The final and the qualifying heats of the men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Thursday 1998-01-15 in Perth, Western Australia.
| Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 1998 FINA World Championships | ||||||||||
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| Date | 15 January 1998 | |||||||||
| Teams | 14 | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3 minutes 16.69 seconds | |||||||||
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Final edit
| Rank | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
|
 UNITED STATESScott Tucker Neil Walker Jon Olsen Gary Hall, Jr. |
3:16.69 CR 49.80 48.75 49.48 48.66 |
|
 AUSTRALIAMichael Klim Adam Pine Richard Upton Chris Fydler |
3:16.97 49.27 49.47 49.64 48.59 |
|
 RUSSIAAlexander Popov Roman Yegorov Vladislav Kulikov Denis Pimankov |
3:18.45 48.74 CR 49.67 51.28 48.76 |
| 4 |  GERMANYChristian Keller Christian Tröger Stefan Herbst Torsten Spanneberg |
3:18.83 50.78 49.37 49.57 49.11 |
| 5 |  NETHERLANDSMark Veens Martijn Zuijdweg Johan Kenkhuis Pieter van den Hoogenband |
3:19.47 50.83 50.17 50.14 48.38 |
| 6 |  BRAZILFernando Scherer Edvaldo Valério André Cordeiro Gustavo Borges |
3:20.36 50.63 50.83 50.19 48.71 |
| 7 |  GREAT BRITAINGavin Meadows Mike Fibbens James Salter Nick Shackell |
3:21.45 50.32 50.28 50.49 50.36 |
| 8 |  ITALYLorenzo Vismara Mauro Gallo Simone Cercato Massimiliano Rosolino |
3:22.12 50.16 51.01 50.25 50.70 |
Qualifying heats edit
Heat 1 edit
| Rank | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GERMANY Stefan Herbst Steffen Zesner Lars Conrad Torsten Spanneberg |
3:20.55 50.47 50.51 49.99 49.58 |
| 2 | UNITED STATES Bryan Jones Jon Olsen Bryan Schumacher Gary Hall, Jr. |
3:20.76 50.99 49.73 50.04 50.00 |
| 3 | NETHERLANDS Bram van Haandel Martijn Zuijdweg Johan Kenkhuis Mark Veens |
3:21.46 51.41 50.08 49.91 50.06 |
| 4 | ITALY Mauro Gallo Alessandro Bacchi Lorenzo Vismara Simone Cercato |
3:21.60 51.28 50.62 49.61 50.09 |
| 5 |  UZBEKISTANRavil Nachaev Oleg Pukhnaty Sergey Erilin Alexey Makhantsev |
3:32.63 52.46 52.41 54.19 53.57 |
| 6 |  IRANHamidreza Mobarrez Amir Saleh Azadi Namin Behzad Mehdi Khabazian Pirouz Eftekhar Manavi |
3:49.26 56.89 58.59 57.45 56.33 |
| 7 |  SWEDENJohan Walberg Lars Frölander Fredrik Letzler Jonas Åkesson |
DSQ 50.88 49.12 50.40 — |
Heat 2 edit
| Rank | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BRAZIL Fernando Scherer Edvaldo Valério André Cordeiro Gustavo Borges |
3:21.08 50.34 51.06 50.41 49.27 |
| 2 | AUSTRALIA Adam Pine Richard Upton Nathan Rickard Anthony Rogis |
3:21.36 50.48 49.82 50.11 50.95 |
| 3 | RUSSIA Roman Yegorov Vladislav Kulikov Maxim Korshunov Denis Pimankov |
3:21.58 50.94 50.83 50.87 48.94 |
| 4 | GREAT BRITAIN Nick Shackell Gavin Meadows James Salter Mike Fibbens |
3:22.03 50.88 49.89 50.70 50.56 |
| 5 |  NEW ZEALANDNicholas Tongue John Steel Danyon Loader Trent Bray |
3:23.38 52.24 50.75 50.50 49.89 |
| 6 |  SPAINJuan Benavides José Rojano Juan José Torrado Javier Botello |
3:24.50 51.58 50.96 51.44 50.52 |
| 7 |  CHINESE TAIPEIHuang-Chih Yung Hung-Chieh Chih Li-Yun Lun Wu-Nien Pen |
3:39.43 53.18 54.93 55.23 56.09 |