Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay at the 1998 FINA World Championships
Date	13 January 1998
Teams	12
Winning time	7 minutes 12.48 seconds
Medalists
Michael Klim Grant Hackett Ian Thorpe Daniel Kowalski    Australia   Pieter v.d. Hoogenband Mark van der Zijden Martijn Zuijdweg Marcel Wouda    Netherlands   Paul Palmer Gavin Meadows Andrew Clayton James Salter    Great Britain

The final and the qualifying heats of the men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Tuesday 13 January 1998 in Perth, Australia.

Final

Rank	Team	Time
	AUSTRALIA Michael Klim Grant Hackett Ian Thorpe Daniel Kowalski	7:12.48 CR 1:47.67 1:48.41 1:47.67 1:48.73
	NETHERLANDS Pieter van den Hoogenband Mark van der Zijden Martijn Zuijdweg Marcel Wouda	7:16.77 1:48.36 1:50.60 1:49.75 1:48.06
	GREAT BRITAIN Paul Palmer Gavin Meadows Andrew Clayton James Salter	7:17.33 1:49.72 1:48.61 1:50.38 1:48.62
4	GERMANY Christian Keller Stefan Pohl Jörg Hoffmann Steffen Zesner	7:19.70 1:50.27 1:49.91 1:50.12 1:49.40
5	UNITED STATES Uğur Taner Josh Davis Tom Malchow Tom Dolan	7:19.97 1:48.83 1:48.16 1:49.69 1:53.29
6	DENMARK Jeppe Nielsen Jacob Carstensen Jacob Rasmussen Anders Jensen	7:26.07 1:52.71 1:49.49 1:50.65 1:53.22
7	RUSSIA Dimitri Kuzmin Alexei Stepanov Maxim Korshunov Dimitri Chernyshev	7:27.95 1:52.13 1:50.68 1:52.91 1:52.23
8	SWEDEN Anders Lyrbring Johan Walberg Petter Lindh Max von Bodungen	7:31.71 1:51.71 1:52.95 1:51.93 1:55.12

Qualifying heats

Heat 1

Rank	Team	Time
1	AUSTRALIA Daniel Kowalski Grant Hackett Ian Thorpe Anthony Rogers	7:18.66
2	GERMANY Christian Keller Stefan Herbst Torsten Spanneberg Stefan Pohl	7:22.87
3	NETHERLANDS Mark van der Zijden Bas-Ido Wennekes Johan Kenkhuis Martijn Zuijdweg	7:25.20
4	DENMARK Jeppe Nielsen Jacob Carstensen Jacob Rasmussen Anders Jensen	7:25.46
5	NEW ZEALAND Trent Bray Scott Cameron Nicholas Tongue Danyon Loader	7:31.25
6	CHINESE TAIPEI Li-Yun Lun Hung-Chien Chih Huang-Chih Yung Tseng-Cheng Hua	8:01.87

Heat 2

Rank	Team	Time
1	UNITED STATES Uğur Taner John Piersma Trevor Runberg Scott Tucker	7:20.48
2	GREAT BRITAIN James Salter Andrew Clayton Mark Stevens Gavin Meadows	7:23.62
3	RUSSIA Dimitri Chernyshev Alexei Stepanov Dimitri Kuzmin Maxim Korshunov	7:27.32
4	SWEDEN Anders Lyrbring Johan Walberg Petter Lindh Max von Bodungen	7:28.36
5	UZBEKISTAN Sergey Erilin Ravil Nachaev Peter Vasiliev Oleg Pukhnaty	8:02.51
—	ITALY Emiliano Brembilla Simone Cercato Moreno Gallina Massimiliano Rosolino	DSQ

See also

• 1996 Men's Olympic Games 4x200m Freestyle (Atlanta)
• 1997 Men's World Championships (SC) 4x200m Freestyle (Gothenburg)
• 1997 Men's European Championships (LC) 4x200m Freestyle (Seville)
• 2000 Men's Olympic Games 4x200m Freestyle (Sydney)

References

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