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

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

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