Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 25 km

Main article: Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

The Men's 25K race at the 8th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on January 11, 1998, in the ocean off Perth, Western Australia.

Results

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aleksey Akatyev	Russia	5:05:42.1
2	David Meca	Spain	5:07:22.9
3	Gabriel Chaillou	Argentina	5:07:52.6
4	Claudio Gargaro	Italy	5:09:48.2
5	Yury Kudinov	Russia	5:12:07.3
6	Stéphane Lecat	France	5:14:15.5
7	Grant Robinson	Australia	5:14:40.2
8	Fabrizio Pescatori	Italy	5:16:54.6
9	Igor Majcen	Slovenia	5:17:09.1
10	Nicolas Knap	France	5:22:35.1
11	Mark Saliba	Australia	5:27:54.1
12	Andre Wilde	Germany	5:31:38.5
13	Nathan Stooke	USA	5:32:20.8
14	Nace Majcen	Slovenia	5:33.52.8
15	Liam Weseloh	Canada	5:34:53.3
16	Simon Chocron	Venezuela	5:38:43.3
17	Chuck Wiley	USA	5:42:32.4
18	Paulo Torres	Brazil	5:45:04.7
19	Alberto Morejon	Cuba	5:46:10.8
20	Ryan Coom	New Zealand	5:48.03.2
21	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	5:52:28.7
22	Trpimir Kutle	Croatia	5:54:18.1
23	Robert Dinka	Slovakia	5:57:26.2
24	Gareth Fowler	South Africa	6:05:11.0
25	Takashi Sugisawa	Japan	6:12.37.8
26	Ákos Győrffy	Hungary	6:25:55.4
--	Manuel Colmenares	Venezuela	DNF
--	Christof Wandratsch	Germany	DNF
--	György Pál	Hungary	DNF
--	Seif Al-Deen El-Hassan	Sudan	DNF
--	Yasir Abdalmag Osman	Sudan	DNF