Swimming at the 1998 Asian Games

Swimming was contested from December 7 to December 19 at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	15	12	10	37
2	China	13	17	3	33
3	Thailand	1	3	1	5
4	Malaysia	1	1	1	3
5	South Korea	1	0	7	8
6	Chinese Taipei	1	0	4	5
7	Kazakhstan	0	0	3	3
8	Philippines	0	0	2	2
9	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
9	Syria	0	0	1	1
	Total	32	33	33	98

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Jiang Chengji  China	22.38	Tomohiro Yamanoi  Japan	23.26	Hirosuke Hamano  Japan	23.43
100 m freestyle	Shunsuke Ito  Japan	51.29	Shusuke Ito  Japan	52.07	Igor Sitnikov  Kazakhstan Zhao Lifeng  China Huang Chih-Yung  Chinese Taipei	52.21
200 m freestyle	Yosuke Ichikawa  Japan	1:52.46	Torlarp Sethsothorn  Thailand	1:52.53	Shusuke Ito  Japan	1:52.81
400 m freestyle	Torlarp Sethsothorn  Thailand	3:53.61	Masato Hirano  Japan	3:54.13	Mark Kwok  Hong Kong	4:00.44
1500 m freestyle	Masato Hirano  Japan	15:22.20	Torlarp Sethsothorn  Thailand	15:40.17	Hisham Al-Masri  Syria	15:51.60
100 m backstroke	Alex Lim  Malaysia	55.53	Fu Yong  China	56.40	Raymond Papa  Philippines	56.83
200 m backstroke	Fu Yong  China	1:59.30	Alex Lim  Malaysia	2:00.94	Raymond Papa  Philippines	2:01.80
100 m breaststroke	Zeng Qiliang  China	1:02.32	Akira Hayashi  Japan	1:02.55	Elvin Chia  Malaysia	1:03.09
200 m breaststroke	Zhu Yi  China	2:16.26	Ratapong Sirisanont  Thailand	2:16.47	Yoshinobu Miyazaki  Japan	2:16.97
100 m butterfly	Takashi Yamamoto  Japan	53.34	Zhang Xiao  China	54.40	Han Kyu-Chul  South Korea	54.83
200 m butterfly	Takashi Yamamoto  Japan	1:56.75	Xie Xufeng  China	1:59.67	Han Kyu-Chul  South Korea	2:00.46
200 m individual medley	Xiong Guoming  China	2:03.34	Jo Yoshimi  Japan	2:04.94	Xie Xufeng  China	2:05.45
400 m individual medley	Takahiro Mori  Japan	4:20.98	Xiong Guoming  China	4:22.57	Ratapong Sirisanont  Thailand	4:24.15
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Japan	3:25.53	China	3:25.86	Kazakhstan	3:28.53
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Japan	7:30.53	China	7:34.11	South Korea	7:36.07
4 × 100 m medley relay	Japan	3:41.98	China	3:44.40	Kazakhstan	3:51.13

Women

GR: Asian Games Record

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Shan Ying  China	25.88	Xue Han  China	26.04	Sumika Minamoto  Japan	26.08
100 m freestyle	Shan Ying  China	56.20	Chao Na  China Sumika Minamoto  Japan	56.39
200 m freestyle	Tsai Shu-Min  Chinese Taipei	2:00.89	Qin Caini  China	2:01.75	Sachiko Yamada  Japan	2:03.14
400 m freestyle	Chen Hua  China	4:12.31	Sachiko Yamada  Japan	4:14.53 (GR)	Tsai Shu-Min  Chinese Taipei	4:15.66
800 m freestyle	Chen Hua  China	8:38.00	Sachiko Yamada  Japan	8:39.21	Eri Yamanoi  Japan	8:56.90
100 m backstroke	Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan	1:01.84	Mai Nakamura  Japan	1:02.11	Choi Soo-Min  South Korea	1:03.37
200 m backstroke	Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan	2:12.25	Mai Nakamura  Japan	2:14.79	Shim Min-Ji  South Korea	2:16.46
100 m breaststroke	Li Wei  China	1:08.95	Xu Shan  China	1:10.00	Masami Tanaka  Japan	1:10.30
200 m breaststroke	Masami Tanaka  Japan	2:28.44	Qi Hui  China	2:28.71	Junko Isoda  Japan	2:32.39
100 m butterfly	Ayari Aoyama  Japan	59.44	Ruan Yi  China	1:00.57	Hitomi Kashima  Japan	1:00.87
200 m butterfly	Cho Hee-Yeon  South Korea	2:11.34	Ruan Yi  China	2:12.51	Hitomi Kashima  Japan	2:13.26
200 m individual medley	Wu Yanyan  China	2:15.12	Chen Yan  China	2:15.54	Cho Hee-Yeon  South Korea	2:15.95
400 m individual medley	Yasuko Tajima  Japan	4:39.92	Wu Yanyan  China	4:46.74	Chen Yan  China	4:47.34
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	China	3:45.51	Japan	3:47.65	Chinese Taipei	3:51.42
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	China	8:08.00	Japan	8:12.06	Chinese Taipei	8:18.92
4 × 100 m medley relay	Japan Tomoko Hagiwara Masami Tanaka Ayari Aoyama Sumika Minamoto	4:06.70	China Wu Yanyan Li Wei Ruan Yi Shan Ying	4:08.54	South Korea Shim Min-Ji Kye Yoon-Hee Cho Hee-Yeon Lee Bo-Eun	4:15.03

References

• XIII Sadec Online: Asian Games in Bangkok
• Sports 123: Asian Games
• SWIMNEWS ONLINE: ASIAN GAMES Bangkok, Thailand - December 7 - 12, 1998 (50 M)

External links

• 13th Asian Games Bangkok 1998