Swimming at the 1998 Goodwill Games

The swimming competition at the 1998 Goodwill Games was held in New York City, New York, USA from 28 July to 2 August.

The format is a team competition.The men's teams are the United States, China, Germany and a World All-Star team and the women's teams are the United States, Russia, Germany and a World All-Star team.

Each men and women’s team competes in a round-robin, dual meet format of 14 events for a total of three dual meets per team. Team accumulates points based upon placement of its entries. Individual event medals are also awarded based upon the overall fastest times in all the competition. ^[1]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Fernando Scherer   Brazil	22.18 (SA)	Alexander Popov   Russia	22.27	Lorenzo Vismara   Italy	22.46
100 m freestyle	Alexander Popov   Russia	48.86 (GR)	Fernando Scherer   Brazil	48.91	Pieter van den Hoogenband   Netherlands	49.61
200 m freestyle	Pieter van den Hoogenband   Netherlands	1:47.34 (GR)	Josh Davis   United States	1:48.73	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	1:49.35
400 m freestyle	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	3:52.98	Erik Vendt   United States	3:52.99	Ryk Neethling   South Africa	3:54.61
800 m freestyle	Ryk Neethling   South Africa	8:01.01	Luiz Lima   Brazil	8:01.58	Erik Vendt   United States	8:01.66
1500 m not held
100 m backstroke	Stev Theloke   Germany	54.43 (GR)	Lenny Krayzelburg   United States	55.14	Rodolfo Falcón   Cuba	55.22
200 m backstroke	Lenny Krayzelburg   United States	1:58.17 (GR)	Brad Bridgewater   United States	1:59.81	Vladimir Selkov   Russia	2:00.11
100 m butterfly	Denys Sylantyev   Ukraine	52.52 (GR)	Vladislav Kulikov   Russia	53.17	Franck Esposito   France	53.60
200 m butterfly	Denys Sylantyev   Ukraine	1:56.16 (GR)	Franck Esposito   France	1:57.55	Denis Pankratov   Russia	1:58.49
100 m breaststroke	Kurt Grote   United States	1:01.76 (GR)	Jens Kruppa   Germany	1:01.79	Patrick Fowler   United States	1:02.02
200 m breaststroke	Kurt Grote   United States	2:13.16	Pavel Anokhin   Russia	2:14.31	Andrei Ivanov   Russia	2:14.43
200 m individual medley	Curtis Myden   Canada	2:00.38 (GR)	Ron Karnaugh   United States	2:01.90	Jirka Letzin   Germany	2:03.20
400 m IM not held
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	All-Stars Fernando Scherer (48.69) SA Pieter van den Hoogenband Ricardo Busquets Lorenzo Vismara	3:17.64	Russia Roman Yegorov Alexander Popov Denis Pimankov Sergey Ashihmin	3:17.99	Germany Aimo Heilmann Stefan Herbst Alexander Luederitz Michael Kiedel	3:21.48
4 × 100 m medley relay	Russia Vladimir Selkov Andrey Korneyev Vladislav Kulikov Alexander Popov	3:38.86 (GR)	United States Lenny Krayzelburg Kurt Grote Bryan Jones Dan Phillips	3:39.46	All-Stars Emanuele Merisi Domenico Fioravanti Denys Sylantyev Francisco Sánchez	3:40.54

References

1. SWIMMING

• 1998 Goodwill Games Swimming Results