Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships

Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships
Host cityPerth, Australia
Events6
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The Open Water Swimming events at the 8th FINA World Aquatics Championships were swum in the ocean off Perth, Western Australia on January 6 and 11, 1998. The discipline featured 4 events: a 5-kilometer race, or "5K", for males and females, and a 25-kilometer race (25K) for males and females. It was the first time the 5K was raced a World Championships.[1] The races featured 80 swimmers from 26 nations.[1]

  1. ^ a b HistoFINA: Open Water Swimming Archived 2013-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Updated by FINA in February 2013; retrieved 2013-06-03.

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