1998 World Aquatics Championships

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8th FINA World Championships
Host cityPerth, Western Australia, Australia
Date(s)January 8–17, 1998
1998 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Open water swimming
Single
5 kmmenwomen
5 kmteam rating
25 kmmenwomen
25 kmteam rating
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
Synchronised swimming
Solowomen
Duetwomen
Teamwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen
Main article: FINA World Aquatics Championships

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[edit]

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[edit]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States176932
2 Russia113317
3 Australia*781025
4 China68418
5 Ukraine3104
6 Italy2226
7 Germany17614
8 Netherlands1438
9 France1416
10 Hungary1124
11 Spain1102
12 Belgium1001
 Costa Rica1001
14 Japan0448
15 Slovakia0213
16 Canada0134
17 Sweden0112
18 Great Britain0022
19 Argentina0011
 Puerto Rico0011
 Yugoslavia0011
Totals (21 entries)535354160

Results[edit]

Diving[edit]

Main article: Diving at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships
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[edit]

Main article: Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships
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[edit]

Main article: Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

Synchronised swimming[edit]

Main article: Synchronised swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

Water polo[edit]

Men
Main article: Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team  Spain  Hungary  Yugoslavia
Women
Main article: Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team  Italy  Netherlands  Australia

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Chinese Olympians subjected to routine doping". The Sydney morning Herald. 28 July 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  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.
  3. ^ a b Cecil Colwin (2002). Breakthrough Swimming. Human Kinetics. pp. 213–. ISBN 978-0-7360-3777-8. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

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