Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

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Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 1998 FINA World Championships
Date	17 January 1998
Competitors	81 from 61 nations
Winning time	22.29 seconds
Medalists
Bill Pilczuk    United States   Alexander Popov    Russia   Ricardo Busquets    Puerto Rico   Michael Klim    Australia
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The finals and the qualifying heats of the men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Saturday 17 January 1998 in Perth, Western Australia.

Heats[]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	11	Michael Klim	Australia	22.58
1	11	Alexander Popov	Russia	22.58
3	11	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	22.61
4	9	Bill Pilczuk	United States	22.70
5	10	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	22.76
6	11	Brendon Dedekind	South Africa	22.77
7	9	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	22.79
8	9	Neil Walker	United States	22.82
9	11	Mark Foster	Great Britain	22.85
10	9	Alexander Lüderitz	Germany	22.86
11	5	Yoav Bruck	Israel	22.90
12	10	Julien Sicot	France	22.98
12	11	Denis Pimankov	Russia	22.98
12	9		Australia	22.98
15	10		Brazil	23.08
16	8	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	23.12
17	9	Torsten Spanneberg	Germany	23.12
18	10	Jiang Chengji	China	23.13
19	10	José Meolans	Argentina	23.15
20	7	Fredrik Letzler	Sweden	23.18
21	8	Mike Fibbens	Great Britain	23.29
22	8	Lorenzo Vismara	Italy	23.31
22	10	Aleh Rukhlevich	Belarus	23.31
24	7	Stephen Clarke	Canada	23.37
25	8	Craig Hutchison	Canada	23.40
26	10	Juan Benavides	Spain	23.42
27	11	Nicolae Ivan	Romania	23.47
28	8	Indrek Sei	Estonia	23.50
29	8	Francisco Sánchez	Venezuela	23.54
30	7	Shunsuke Ito	Japan	23.61
31	7	Felipe Delgado	Ecuador	23.64
32	11	Stavros Michaelides	Cyprus	23.66
33	8	Salim Iles	Algeria	23.74
34	7		Sweden	23.79
35	8	Alen Lončar	Croatia	23.83
35	9		Belgium	23.83
37	6	Janko Gojkovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	23.88
38	7	Nicholas O'Hare	Ireland	23.94
39	7	Ravil Nachaev	Uzbekistan	24.14
40	7	Igor Sitnikov	Kazakhstan	24.17
41	5		Chinese Taipei	24.29
41	6		New Zealand	24.29
43	5	Mehdi Addadi	Algeria	24.43
44	6		Nigeria	24.49
45	6	John Steel	New Zealand	24.52
46	6	Leslie Kwok	Singapore	24.67
47	5	Carl Probert	Fiji	24.73
48	4		Singapore	24.79
49	5		Bermuda	24.84
50	6		Mexico	24.86
51	5		Chinese Taipei	24.97
52	4		Hong Kong	25.01
53	6		Uzbekistan	25.05
54	4	Christophe Lim	Mauritius	25.35
55	5		Nigeria	25.36
56	4		Iran	25.48
57	4		Mauritius	25.66
58	4		Macau	25.70
59	3		Tahiti	25.90
60	3	Diego Mularoni	San Marino	26.04
61	3		Guam	26.11
62	3		Iran	26.12
63	6		Sri Lanka	26.38
64	5		Tahiti	26.47
65	3		San Marino	26.55
66	3		Kenya	26.85
67	3		Nicaragua	26.94
68	3		Turkmenistan	27.15
69	4		Mongolia	27.16
70	4		Guam	27.35
71	2		Guyana	27.64
72	9		Cameroon	27.73
73	2		Togo	28.79
–	2		Iraq	DQ
–	2		Uganda	DQ
–	2	Anlloyd Samuel	Palau	DQ
–	1		Dominican Republic	DNS
–	1		Mongolia	DNS
–	1		Palestine	DNS
–	2	Dmitri Margaryan	Armenia	DNS
–	10	Marcos Hernández	Cuba	DNS

B Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	Julien Sicot	France	22.62
10	Denis Pimankov	Russia	22.67
11	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	22.77
12		Australia	22.82
12	Mark Foster	Great Britain	22.82
14	Alexander Lüderitz	Germany	23.01
15	Yoav Bruck	Israel	23.03
16		Brazil	23.07

A Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bill Pilczuk	United States	22.29
	Alexander Popov	Russia	22.43
	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	22.47
	Michael Klim	Australia	22.47
5	Neil Walker	United States	22.50
6	Brendon Dedekind	South Africa	22.54
7	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	22.83
8	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	22.84

See also[]

• Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle (Atlanta)
• 1997 FINA Short Course World Championships – Men's 50m Freestyle (Gothenburg)
• Swimming at the 1997 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle (Seville)
• Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle (Sydney)

References[]

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