Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 1998 FINA World Championships
Date	15 January 1998
Teams	14
Winning time	3 minutes 16.69 seconds
Medalists
Scott Tucker Neil Walker Jon Olsen Gary Hall, Jr.   United States   Michael Klim Adam Pine Richard Upton Chris Fydler   Australia   Alexander Popov Roman Yegorov Vladislav Kulikov Denis Pimankov   Russia

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.

Final

Rank	Team	Time
	UNITED STATES Scott Tucker Neil Walker Jon Olsen Gary Hall, Jr.	3:16.69 CR 49.80 48.75 49.48 48.66
	AUSTRALIA Michael Klim Adam Pine Richard Upton Chris Fydler	3:16.97 49.27 49.47 49.64 48.59
	RUSSIA Alexander Popov Roman Yegorov Vladislav Kulikov Denis Pimankov	3:18.45 48.74 CR 49.67 51.28 48.76
4	GERMANY Christian Keller Christian Tröger Stefan Herbst Torsten Spanneberg	3:18.83 50.78 49.37 49.57 49.11
5	NETHERLANDS Mark Veens Martijn Zuijdweg Johan Kenkhuis Pieter van den Hoogenband	3:19.47 50.83 50.17 50.14 48.38
6	BRAZIL Fernando Scherer Edvaldo Valério André Cordeiro Gustavo Borges	3:20.36 50.63 50.83 50.19 48.71
7	GREAT BRITAIN Gavin Meadows Mike Fibbens James Salter Nick Shackell	3:21.45 50.32 50.28 50.49 50.36
8	ITALY Lorenzo Vismara Mauro Gallo Simone Cercato Massimiliano Rosolino	3:22.12 50.16 51.01 50.25 50.70

Qualifying heats

Heat 1

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	UZBEKISTAN Ravil Nachaev Oleg Pukhnaty Sergey Erilin Alexey Makhantsev	3:32.63 52.46 52.41 54.19 53.57
6	IRAN Hamidreza Mobarrez Amir Saleh Azadi Namin Behzad Mehdi Khabazian Pirouz Eftekhar Manavi	3:49.26 56.89 58.59 57.45 56.33
7	SWEDEN Johan Walberg Lars Frölander Fredrik Letzler Jonas Åkesson	DSQ 50.88 49.12 50.40 —

Heat 2

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 ZEALAND Nicholas Tongue John Steel Danyon Loader Trent Bray	3:23.38 52.24 50.75 50.50 49.89
6	SPAIN Juan Benavides José Rojano Juan José Torrado Javier Botello	3:24.50 51.58 50.96 51.44 50.52
7	CHINESE TAIPEI Huang-Chih Yung Hung-Chieh Chih Li-Yun Lun Wu-Nien Pen	3:39.43 53.18 54.93 55.23 56.09

See also

• 1996 Men's Olympic Games 4x100m Freestyle (Atlanta)
• 1997 Men's World Championships (SC) 4x100m Freestyle (Gothenburg)
• 1997 Men's European Championships (LC) 4x100m Freestyle (Seville)
• 2000 Men's Olympic Games 4x100m Freestyle (Sydney)

References

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