The finals and the qualifying heats of the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Thursday 15 January 1998 in Perth, Western Australia.

Heats Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 Emiliano Brembilla 3:50.61 2 6 Ian Thorpe 3:51.42 3 5 Grant Hackett 3:51.68 4 5 Paul Palmer 3:51.71 5 4 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:51.93 6 4 Jörg Hoffmann 3:52.15 7 5 Ihor Snitko 3:52.24 8 4 Danyon Loader 3:52.44 9 6 Ryk Neethling 3:53.75 10 4 John Piersma 3:54.47 11 5 Masato Hirano 3:55.28 12 5 Jacob Cartensen 3:55.38 13 6 Tyler Painter 3:55.61 14 6 Luiz Lima 3:55.81 15 6 Béla Szabados 3:57.12 16 3 Andrei Cecan 3:57.32 17 5 Sergi Roure 3:57.42 18 6 Frederik Hviid 3:57.49 19 4 Alexei Stepanov 3:58.23 20 4 Torlarp Sethsothorn 3:58.71 21 6 Jure Bucar 3:59.51 22 3 Mark Kwok 4:00.94 23 4 Anders Jensen 4:01.13 24 5 Dimitrios Manganas 4:01.66 25 3 Scott Talbot-Cameron 4:01.82 26 4 Denys Zavhorodnyy 4:03.65 27 5 Jin Hao 4:04.07 28 3 Li Yun-Lun 4:05.80 29 3 Tom Stoltz 4:06.08 30 3 Ramon Valle 4:07.13 31 2 Alex Fong 4:08.09 32 3 Sng Ju Wei 4:09.03 33 3 Tseng Cheng-Hua 4:09.07 34 2 Kurt Niehaus 4:11.84 35 2 Diego Mularoni 4:15.69 36 2 Petr Vasiliev 4:16.28 37 2 Fadi Kouzma 4:25.05 38 2 Yann Rambert 4:26.75 39 2 Michael Watson 5:27.11 – 1 Pedro Bonnelly DNS – 1 Sebastien Paddington DNS

B Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9 Ryk Neethling 3:50.95 10 Luiz Lima 3:52.97 11 John Piersma 3:53.32 12 Jacob Carstensen 3:55.86 13 Masato Hirano 3:56.63 14 Béla Szabados 3:56.66 15 Andrei Cecan 3:56.68 16 Tyler Painter 3:57.30

A Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Ian Thorpe 3:46.29 Grant Hackett 3:46.44 Paul Palmer 3:48.02 4 Emiliano Brembilla 3:48.60 5 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:48.89 6 Igor Snitko 3:50.16 7 Jörg Hoffmann 3:51.70 8 Danyon Loader 3:52.26

See also Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle (Atlanta) 1997 FINA Short Course World Championships – Men's 400m Freestyle (Gothenburg) Swimming at the 1997 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle (Seville) Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle (Sydney)

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