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

Men's 400 metre individual medley1998 FINA World Championships
Date	13 January 1998
Competitors	25
Winning time	4 minutes 14.95 seconds
Medalists
Tom Dolan   United States   Marcel Wouda   Netherlands   Curtis Myden   Canada

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 individual medley event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Tuesday 13 January 1998 in Perth, Australia.

A Final

Rank	Name	Time
	Tom Dolan (USA)	4:14.95
	Marcel Wouda (NED)	4:15.53
	Curtis Myden (CAN)	4:16.45
4	Matthew Dunn (AUS)	4:16.76
5	István Batházi (HUN)	4:20.28
6	Robert Seibt (GER)	4:20.56
7	Trent Steed (AUS)	4:21.86
8	Tatsuya Kinugasa (JPN)	4:21.91

B Final

Rank	Name	Time
9	Frederik Hviid (ESP)	4:21.66
10	Steven Brown (USA)	4:22.14
11	Xavier Marchand (FRA)	4:23.24
12	Miguel Santolaya (ESP)	4:26.79
13	Krešimir Čač (CRO)	4:27.18
14	Josef Horký (CZE)	4:29.75
15	Mark Kwok (HKG)	4:30.66
—	Xiong Guoming (CHN)	DSQ

Qualifying heats

Rank	Name	Time
1	Marcel Wouda (NED)	4:17.91
2	Curtis Myden (CAN)	4:18.70
3	Tom Dolan (USA)	4:19.67
4	Trent Steed (AUS)	4:20.13
5	Matthew Dunn (AUS)	4:21.22
6	Robert Seibt (GER)	4:21.50
7	István Batházi (HUN)	4:21.95
8	Tatsuya Kinugasa (JPN)	4:22.07
9	Xavier Marchand (FRA)	4:22.77
10	Frederik Hviid (ESP)	4:22.90
11	Steven Brown (USA)	4:23.93
12	Josef Horký (CZE)	4:28.70
13	Xiong Guoming (CHN)	4:28.72
14	Miguel Santolaya (ESP)	4:29.42
15	Mark Kwok (HKG)	4:29.71
16	Krešimir Čač (CRO)	4:30.83
17	Kim Bang-Hyun (KOR)	4:30.91
18	Oliver Young (NZL)	4:30.94
19	Gunter Rodríguez (CUB)	4:31.47
20	Marko Milenkovič (SLO)	4:31.89
21	Ratapong Sirisanont (THA)	4:32.76
22	Alex Fong Lik-Sun (HKG)	4:32.91
23	Adrian Andermatt (SUI)	4:33.52
24	Jin Hao (CHN)	4:33.95
25	Aleksandar Miladinovski (MKD)	4:34.72

See also

• 1996 Men's Olympic Games 400m Individual Medley (Atlanta)
• 1997 Men's World SC Championships 400m Individual Medley (Gothenburg)
• 1997 Men's European LC Championships 400m Individual Medley (Seville)
• 2000 Men's Olympic Games 400m Individual Medley (Sydney)