Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle1998 FINA World Championships
Date	15 January 1998
Competitors	41 from 32 nations
Winning time	3 minute 46.29 seconds
Medalists
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1998 FINA World Championships Perth, Australia
Diving
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	5 km	25 km
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Water polo
Team	men	women

The finals and the qualifying heats of the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Thursday 15 January 1998 in Perth, Australia.

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time
1	6	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	3:50.61
2	6	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:51.42
3	5	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:51.68
4	5	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	3:51.71
5	4	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:51.93
6	4	Jörg Hoffmann	Germany	3:52.15
7	5	Ihor Snitko	Ukraine	3:52.24
8	4	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	3:52.44
9	6	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	3:53.75
10	4	John Piersma	United States	3:54.47
11	5	Masato Hirano	Japan	3:55.28
12	5	Jacob Cartensen	Denmark	3:55.38
13	6	Tyler Painter	United States	3:55.61
14	6	Luiz Lima	Brazil	3:55.81
15	6	Béla Szabados	Hungary	3:57.12
16	3	Andrei Cecan	Moldova	3:57.32
17	5	Sergi Roure	Spain	3:57.42
18	6	Frederik Hviid	Spain	3:57.49
19	4	Alexei Stepanov	Russia	3:58.23
20	4	Torlarp Sethsothorn	Thailand	3:58.71
21	6	Jure Bucar	Slovenia	3:59.51
22	3	Mark Kwok	Hong Kong	4:00.94
23	4	Anders Jensen	Denmark	4:01.13
24	5	Dimitrios Manganas	Greece	4:01.66
25	3	Scott Talbot-Cameron	New Zealand	4:01.82
26	4	Denys Zavhorodniy	Ukraine	4:03.65
27	5	Jin Hao	China	4:04.07
28	3	Li Yun-Lun	Chinese Taipei	4:05.80
29	3	Tom Stoltz	Luxembourg	4:06.08
30	3	Ramon Valle	Honduras	4:07.13
31	2	Alex Fong	Hong Kong	4:08.09
32	3	Sng Ju Wei	Singapore	4:09.03
33	3	Tseng Cheng-Hua	Chinese Taipei	4:09.07
34	2	Kurt Niehaus	Costa Rica	4:11.84
35	2	Diego Mularoni	San Marino	4:15.69
36	2	Petr Vasiliev	Uzbekistan	4:16.28
37	2	Fadi Kouzma	Syria	4:25.05
38	2	Yann Rambert	Mauritius	4:26.75
39	2	Michael Watson	Guyana	5:27.11
–	1	Pedro Bonnelly	Dominican Republic	DNS
–	1	Sebastien Paddington	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
9	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	3:50.95
10	Luiz Lima	Brazil	3:52.97
11	John Piersma	United States	3:53.32
12	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	3:55.86
13	Masato Hirano	Japan	3:56.63
14	Béla Szabados	Hungary	3:56.66
15	Andrei Cecan	Moldova	3:56.68
16	Tyler Painter	United States	3:57.30

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:46.29
	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:46.44
	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	3:48.02
4	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	3:48.60
5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:48.89
6	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	3:50.16
7	Jörg Hoffmann	Germany	3:51.70
8	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	3:52.26