Swimming World Championships 1998 at Perth (aus) Men: 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay January 13: Final: 1. Australia (Michael Klim, Grant Hackett, Ian Thorpe, Daniel Kowalski) 7:12.48 2. Netherlands (Pieter van den Hoogenband, Mark van der Zijden, Martijn Zuijdweg, Marcel Wouda) 7:16.77 3. Great Britain (Paul Palmer, Gavin Meadows, Andrew Clayton, James Salter) 7:17.33 4. Germany (Christian Keller, Stefan Pohl, Jörg Hoffmann, Steffen Zesner) 7:19.70 5. USA (Ugur Taner, Josh Davis, Tom Malchow, Tom Dolan) 7:19.97 6. Denmark (Jeppe Nielsen, Jacob Carstensen, Jacob Rasmussen, Anders Jensen) 7:26.07 7. Russia (Dmitriy Kuzmin, Aleksey Stepanov, Maksim Korshunov, Dmitriy Chernychev) 7:27.95 8. Sweden (Anders Lyrbring, Johan Walberg, Petter Lindh, Max von Budungen) 7:31.71