1998 World Aquatics Championships

Aquatic sports competition August 2020 8th FINA World Championships Perth, Western Australia, Australia 8–17 January 1998 1994 Rome 2001 Fukuoka 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.https://www.smh.com.au/olympics/news-london-2012/chinese-olympians-subjected-to-routine-doping-20120726-22v65.html Chinese Olympians subjected to routine doping The Sydney morning Herald 30 July 2012 28 July 2012 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.Maxwell J. Mehlman The Price of Perfection: Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement https://archive.org/details/priceofperfectio0000mehl registration 31 July 2012 21 May 2009 JHU Press 978-0-8018-9263-9 134– 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.Cecil Colwin Breakthrough Swimming https://archive.org/details/breakthroughswim0000colw registration 30 July 2012 2002 Human Kinetics 978-0-7360-3777-8 213– 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 AUS Flagcountry 17 6 9 11 3 3 7 8 10 yes 6 8 4 3 1 0 2 2 2 1 7 6 1 4 3 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 4 0 2 1 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Results Diving Diving at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships Men 1 m springboardZhuocheng Yu CHNTroy Dumais USAHolger Schlepps GER 3 m springboardDmitri Sautin RUSYilin Zhou CHNVassili Lisovski RUS 10 m platformDmitri Sautin RUSTian Liang CHNJan Hempel GER 3 m springboard synchroHao Xu CHNZhuocheng Yu CHNAlexander Mesch GERHolger Schlepps GERDean Pullar AUSShannon Roy AUS 10 m platform synchroTian Liang CHNSun Shuwei CHNJan Hempel GERMichael Kühne GERIgor Lukashin RUSAleksandr Varlamov RUS Women 1 m springboardIrina Lashko RUSVera Ilyina RUSZhang Jing CHN 3 m springboardYuliya Pakhalina RUSJingjing Guo CHNChantelle Michell AUS 10 m platformOlena Zhupina UKRYuyan Cai CHNLi Chen CHN 3 m springboard synchroIrina Lashko RUSYuliya Pakhalina RUSLang Rao CHNRongjuan Li CHNTracy Bonner USAKathy Pesek USA 10 m platform synchroOlena Zhupina UKRSvitlana Serbina UKRYuyan Cai CHNLi Chen CHNKristin Link USALindsay Long USA Open water swimming Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships Men 5 kmAleksey Akatyev RUSKy Hurst AUSLuca Baldini ITA25 kmAleksey Akatyev RUSDavid Meca ESPGabriel Chaillou ARG Women 5 kmErica Rose USAEdith van Dijk NEDPeggy Büchse GER25 kmTobie Smith USAPeggy Büchse GEREdith van Dijk NED Mixed 5 kmUSAJohn FlanaganAustin RamirezErica RoseRUSAleksey AkatyevYevgeny BezruchenkoOlga GousevaITALuca BaldiniFabio VenturiniValeria Casprini 25 kmITAClaudio GargaroFabrizio PescatoriValeria CaspriniAUSGrant RobinsonMark SalibaTracey KnowlesUSATobie SmithNathan StookeChuck Wiley Swimming Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships Synchronised swimming Synchronised swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships Water polo Men Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament Team ESP HUN FR Yugoslavia Women Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament Team ITA NED AUS References External links Swim Rankings results Aquatics Championship Aquatics Championship Category:World Aquatics Championships W World Aquatics Championships Category:1990s in Perth, Western Australia