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1998 World Aquatics Championships

Aquatic sports competition

Field	Value
name	8th FINA World Championships
hostcity	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
dates	8–17 January 1998
previous	[1994 Rome](1994-world-aquatics-championships)
next	[2001 Fukuoka](2001-world-aquatics-championships)

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. This was also the venue for the opening ceremony, featuring performances by Human Nature and David Helfgott supported by a large choir drawn from local choral societies. The televised performance was marred when the choir, unable to hear their own music due to the fireworks exploding overhead, lost ensemble cohesion.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Medal table

Results

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

;Men

10 m platform synchro	Tian Liang
Sun Shuwei	Jan Hempel
Michael Kühne	Igor Lukashin
Aleksandr Varlamov

;Women

10 m platform synchro	Olena Zhupina
Svitlana Serbina	Yuyan Cai
Li Chen	Kristin Link
Lindsay Long

Open water swimming

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

;Men

25 km	Aleksey Akatyev	David Meca	Gabriel Chaillou

;Women

25 km	Tobie Smith	Peggy Büchse	Edith van Dijk

;Mixed

25 km	ITA
Claudio Gargaro
Fabrizio Pescatori
Valeria Casprini	AUS
Grant Robinson
Mark Saliba
Tracey Knowles	USA
Tobie Smith
Nathan Stooke
Chuck Wiley

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

Synchronised swimming

Main article: Synchronised swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

Water polo

;Men Main article: Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team

;Women Main article: Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team

References

(28 July 2012). "Chinese Olympians subjected to routine doping". The Sydney morning Herald.
Maxwell J. Mehlman. (21 May 2009). "The Price of Perfection: Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement". JHU Press.
Cecil Colwin. (2002). "Breakthrough Swimming". Human Kinetics.

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