Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km

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
men (rosters) women (rosters)

The Men's 5K race at the 8th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on January 6, 1998, in the ocean off of Perth, Australia.

Results

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aleksey Akatyev	Russia	55:18.6
2	Ky Hurst	Australia	55:24.9
3	Luca Baldini	Italy	55:37.4
4	Yevgeny Bezruchenko	Russia	55:41.4
5	David Meca	Spain	55:42.7
6	Fabio Venturini	Italy	55:54.7
7	Igor Majcen	Slovenia	55:55.9
8	John Flanagan	USA	55:57.3
9	Carl Gordon	New Zealand	56:06.6
10	Dave Bates	Australia	56:08.3
11	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	56:09.5
12	Sebastian Wiese	Germany	56:22.5
13	Stephane Lecat	France	56:37.0
13	Christof Wandratsch	Germany	56:37.0
15	Austin Ramirez	USA	56:51.4
16	Nace Majcen	Slovenia	57:01.1
17	Alexandre Angelotti	Brazil	57:25.7
18	Gareth Fowler	South Africa	58:32.2
19	Manuel Colmenares	Venezuela	58:33.6
20	Ryan Coom	New Zealand	58:36.0
21	Simon Chocron	Venezuela	58:50.8
22	Alberto Morejón	Cuba	1:02:12.2
23	Trpimir Kutle	Croatia	1:02:13.3
24	Takashi Sugisawa	Japan	1:02:15.5
25	Norbert Csendes	Hungary	1:02:49.5
26	Anse Henry	Antigua and Barbuda	1:39:49.2

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