1998 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 50m Freestyle
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The finals and the qualifying heats of the men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships
1998 World Aquatics Championships
The 1998 World Aquatics Championships or the 8th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Perth, Western Australia, Australia between 8 January and 17 January 1998....

 were held on Saturday 17 January 1998 in Perth, Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

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Heats

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 11 Michael Klim
Michael Klim
Michael Klim OAM is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. He was born in Gdynia. He was educated at the University High School, Melbourne and Wesley College, Melbourne where he is currently employed as the College's elite Head Coach of swimming...

 
22.58
1 11 Alexander Popov
Alexander Popov (swimmer)
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Popov ; is a Russian former Olympic gold-winning swimmer, widely regarded as one of the greatest sprint freestyle swimmers of all time.-Career:Born in Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast , Popov began swimming at age 8 at...

 
22.58
3 11 Ricardo Busquets
Ricardo Busquets
Ricardo J. Busquets Healy is a former freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico.A student of the University of Tennessee, Busquets is the only Puerto Rico swimmer to ever medal at the World Championships...

 
22.61
4 9 Bill Pilczuk
Bill Pilczuk
Bill Pilczuk is an American swimmer who specialized in the 50 meter freestyle.Pilczuk is a native of Cape May Point, New Jersey....

 
22.70
5 10 Fernando Scherer
Fernando Scherer
Fernando de Queiroz Scherer is an international top swimmer from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the 50 meters freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...

 
22.76
6 11 Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind . He won an international championship gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. Nicknamed Skinny Man, he competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996, when he was a finalist in the 50 m...

 
22.77
7 9 Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Personal life:...

 
22.79
8 9 Neil Walker  22.82
9 11 Mark Foster
Mark Foster (swimmer)
Mark Andrew Foster is a British professional swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres....

 
22.85
10 9 Alexander Lüderitz
Alexander Lüderitz
Alexander Lüderitz is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who swam in the qualifying heats of the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In the final he was replaced by Christian Tröger who, alongside Bengt Zikarsky, Björn Zikarsky, and Mark Pinger won...

 
22.86
11 5 Yoav Bruck
Yoav Bruck
Yoav Bruck is a former swimmer from Israel, who competed in three Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992....

 
22.90
12 10 Julien Sicot
Julien Sicot
Julien Sicot is a French Olympic freestyle swimmer. He swam for France at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has been a member of the French national team since 1997....

 
22.98
12 11 Denis Pimankov
Denis Pimankov
Denis Sergeyevich Pimankov is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who won several medals as a member of the freestyle relay team during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996.-External links:* *...

 
22.98
12 9 Nathan Rickard  22.98
15 10 Ricardo Dornelas  23.08
16 8 Bartosz Kizierowski
Bartosz Kizierowski
Bartłomiej Kizierowski is a freestyle swimmer from Poland, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996....

 
23.12
17 9 Torsten Spanneberg
Torsten Spanneberg
Torsten Spanneberg is an Olympic medal winning German swimmer. He won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics and participated in the swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. His trainer is Norbert Warnatzach and his club is S.G. Neukölln...

 
23.12
18 10 Jiang Chengji
Jiang Chengji
Jiang Chengji is an international male Chinese butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle swimmer from Shanghai. He competed at Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics in 100 m butterfly but narrowly missing the bronze medal finishing fourth. Denis Pankratov, Scott Miller and Vladislav Kulikov won...

 
23.13
19 10 Martin Meolans  23.15
20 7 Fredrik Letzler
Fredrik Letzler
Fredrik Lars-Owe Letzler is a former freestyle swimmer from Sweden. He competed twice at the Summer Olympics for his native country, in 1992 and 1996, both in the men's 4×100 m freestyle relay.- References :...

 
23.18
21 8 Mike Fibbens
Mike Fibbens
Michael Wenham Fibbens is an English swimmer who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 .-References:* * *...

 
23.29
22 8 Lorenzo Vismara
Lorenzo Vismara
Lorenzo Vismara is an Italian freestyle sprinter. He achieved many European-level medals in 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay events...

 
23.31
22 10 Oleg Rykhlevitch  23.31
24 7 Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke (swimmer)
Stephen Clarke is a former Canadian college and international swimmer who was an Olympic bronze medalist. Clarke was born in the United Kingdom, attended university in the United States, and competed internationally for Canada....

 
23.37
25 8 Craig Hutchison
Craig Hutchison (swimmer)
Craig Hutchison is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. His best result was finishing in sixth place in the men's 4x100m medley relay event.-References:*...

 
23.40
26 10 Juan Benavides
Juan Benavides
Juan Benavides Hermosilla is a former freestyle swimmer from Spain, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. There he finished in 30th and 33rd position in the 50m and 100m Freestyle.-References:*...

 
23.42
27 11 Nicolae Ivan
Nicolae Ivan
Nicolae Ivan is a retired freestyle swimmer from Romania, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for winning the bronze medal in the men's 100 m freestyle at the 1996 European SC Championships in Rostock.-References:* *...

 
23.47
28 8 Indrek Sei
Indrek Sei
Indrek Sei is a former freestyle swimmer from Estonia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992....

 
23.50
29 8 Francisco Sánchez  23.54
30 7 Shunsuke Ito
Shunsuke Ito
is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.-References:*...

 
23.61
31 7 Felipe Delgado
Felipe Delgado
Felipe Wax Delgado a.k.a. "DJ Wax Dawg" is an American DJ, songwriter and record producer based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is primarily known for his discovery of CeCe Peniston, and collaborative works with his hometown friend and a music producer/keyboardist, Rodney K. Jackson...

 
23.64
32 11 Stavros Michaelides  23.66
33 8 Salim Iles
Salim Iles
Salim Iles is an Algerian swimmer who competes in the freestyle events.He was named Algerian Sportsman of the Year in 1998. He is a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program.-Olympic achievements:...

 
23.74
34 7 Jonas Åkesson  23.79
35 8 Alen Lončar
Alen Loncar
Alen Lončar is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Croatia, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996.-References:* *...

 
23.83
35 9 Hans Bylemans  23.83
37 6 Janko Gojkovic  23.88
38 7 Nicholas O'Hare  23.94
39 7 Ravil Nachaev  24.14
40 7 Igor Sitnikov  24.17
41 5 Huang Chih Yung  24.29
41 6 Nick Tonge  24.29
43 5 Mehdi Addadi  24.43
44 6 Gentil Offoan  24.49
45 6 John Steel
John Steel (swimmer)
For other persons named John Steel, see John Steel .John Meredith Steel is a former freestyle swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.Steel won two silver medals at the 1994 Commonwealth...

 
24.52
46 6 Leslie Kwok  24.67
47 5 Carl Probert
Carl Probert
Carl Harvie Probert is a 5-time Olympic swimmer and National Record holder from Fiji. He swam for Fiji at the 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

 
24.73
48 4 Kenneth Goh  24.79
49 5 Stephen Troake  24.84
50 6 Jesus Gonzalez Cisneros  24.86
51 5 Hung Chien Chih  24.97
52 4 Zachary Moffatt  25.01
53 6 Alexey Makhantsev  25.05
54 4 Christophe Lim  25.35
55 5 Kehinde Erewunmi  25.36
56 4 Behzad Mehdi Khabazian  25.48
57 4 Gael Duchenne  25.66
58 4 Tai Ka Kin  25.70
59 3 Bertrand Hubert  25.90
60 3 Diego Mularoni  26.04
61 3 Sashi Flores  26.11
62 3 Hamidreza Mobarrez  26.12
63 6 Ghefari Dulapandan  26.38
64 5 Daniel Teriipaia  26.47
65 3 Matteo Cesarini  26.55
66 3 Woo Kim  26.85
67 3 Felix Valdivia  26.94
68 3 Vladimir Klimushin  27.15
69 4 Naranbai Nasanbat  27.16
70 4 Andrew Lee  27.35
71 2 Michael Watson  27.64
72 9 Guillaume Lobe Njoh  27.73
73 2 John Dagbovi-Senakwami  28.79
2 Mikel Ohan  DQ
2 Mohammed Ssebulime  DQ
2 Anlloyd Samuel  DQ
1 Pedro Bonnelly  DNS
1 Orgil Nomingoo  DNS
1 Hassan Mosa  DNS
2 Dmitri Margaryan  DNS
10 Marcos Hernández  DNS

B Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
9 Julien Sicot
Julien Sicot
Julien Sicot is a French Olympic freestyle swimmer. He swam for France at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has been a member of the French national team since 1997....

 
22.62
10 Denis Pimankov
Denis Pimankov
Denis Sergeyevich Pimankov is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who won several medals as a member of the freestyle relay team during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996.-External links:* *...

 
22.67
11 Bartosz Kizierowski
Bartosz Kizierowski
Bartłomiej Kizierowski is a freestyle swimmer from Poland, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996....

 
22.77
12 Nathan Rickard  22.82
12 Mark Foster
Mark Foster (swimmer)
Mark Andrew Foster is a British professional swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres....

 
22.82
14 Alexander Lüderitz
Alexander Lüderitz
Alexander Lüderitz is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who swam in the qualifying heats of the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In the final he was replaced by Christian Tröger who, alongside Bengt Zikarsky, Björn Zikarsky, and Mark Pinger won...

 
23.01
15 Yoav Bruck
Yoav Bruck
Yoav Bruck is a former swimmer from Israel, who competed in three Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992....

 
23.03
16 Ricardo Dornelas  23.07

A Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Bill Pilczuk
Bill Pilczuk
Bill Pilczuk is an American swimmer who specialized in the 50 meter freestyle.Pilczuk is a native of Cape May Point, New Jersey....

 
22.29
Alexander Popov
Alexander Popov (swimmer)
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Popov ; is a Russian former Olympic gold-winning swimmer, widely regarded as one of the greatest sprint freestyle swimmers of all time.-Career:Born in Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast , Popov began swimming at age 8 at...

 
22.43
Ricardo Busquets
Ricardo Busquets
Ricardo J. Busquets Healy is a former freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico.A student of the University of Tennessee, Busquets is the only Puerto Rico swimmer to ever medal at the World Championships...

 
22.47
Michael Klim
Michael Klim
Michael Klim OAM is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. He was born in Gdynia. He was educated at the University High School, Melbourne and Wesley College, Melbourne where he is currently employed as the College's elite Head Coach of swimming...

 
22.47
5 Neil Walker  22.50
6 Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind . He won an international championship gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. Nicknamed Skinny Man, he competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996, when he was a finalist in the 50 m...

 
22.54
7 Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Personal life:...

 
22.83
8 Fernando Scherer
Fernando Scherer
Fernando de Queiroz Scherer is an international top swimmer from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the 50 meters freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...

 
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)
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