The Swimming competition at the 18th Central American and Caribbean Games was swum August 9–15, 1998 in Maracaibo, Venezuela.XVIII Central American and Caribbean Games (top-3 finishers). Published in SwimNews Magazine 1998-08. Retrieved online on 2012-04-21. It featured events in a long course (50m) pool.

Results

Men 50 freestyle Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico 22.55 GR Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela 22.74 Marcos Hernández   Cuba 23.00 100 freestyle Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela 50.05 GR Marcos Hernández   Cuba 50.32 Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico 50.42 200 freestyle Fernando Jácome   Colombia 1:54.28 Oscar Sotelo   Mexico 1:54.43 Ives Garcia   Cuba 1:54.71 400 freestyle Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela 3:58.88 GR Alejandro Bermúdez   Colombia 3:58.89 Josh Ilika   Mexico 3:59.74 1500 freestyle Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela 15:57.50 Ives Garcia   Cuba 16:12.42 Ramon Valle   Honduras 16:26.25 100 backstroke Rodolfo Falcón   Cuba 55.60 GR Neisser Bent   Cuba 55.79 Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico 56.24 200 backstroke Neisser Bent   Cuba 2:01.53 GR Carlos Arena   Mexico 2:05.60 Alexis Perdomo   Venezuela 2:05.78 100 breaststroke Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba 1:04.72 Francisco Suriano   El Salvador 1:04.73 Alvaro Fortuny   Guatemala 1:05.43 200 breaststroke Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba 2:18.58 Francisco Suriano   El Salvador 2:18.91 Jose Lopez   Mexico 2:21.28 100 butterfly Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela 53.86 Oswaldo Quevedo   Venezuela 53.93 Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico 54.32 200 butterfly Andrew Livingston   Puerto Rico 2:00.54 GR Juan Veloz   Mexico 2:01.44 Nelson Mora   Venezuela 2:01.46 200 I.M. Neisser Bent   Cuba 2:07.12 GR Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba 2:07.18 Alejandro Bermúdez   Colombia 2:07.50 400 I.M. Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba 4:26.86 GR Alejandro Bermúdez   Colombia 4:29.10 Santiago Lima   Mexico 4:34.01 4x100  free relay   Oswaldo Quevedo   Francisco Páez   Luis Rojas   Francisco Sánchez 3:23.49 GR   Neisser Bent   Yohan García   Ives García   Marcos Hernández 3:26.91   César Barrón   Carlos Arena   Guillermo Díaz   Oscar Sotelo 3:27.50 4x200  free relay not swum 4x100  medley relay   Rodolfo Falcón  Gunter Rodríguez  Yohan García  Marcos Hernández 3:44.61 GR   Carlos Arena   José A. López   Jesús González   César Barrón 3:46.63   Ricardo Busquets   Arsenio López   Andrew Livingston   Eduardo González 3:47.23

Women 50 freestyle Eileen Coparropa   Panama 26.12 GR Siobhan Cropper   Trinidad & Tobago 26.40 Deborah Figueroa   Cuba 26.82 100 freestyleDaniela Villegas tested positive for a prohibited substance, and had her results nullified. This effected the medal standings in (and her/Mexico's times) the women's: 100 free (58.71), 200 free (2:05.18), 400 free (4:24.21), 200 I.M. (2:24.17), 4x100 Free Relay (4:00.99) and 4x200 Free Relay (8:39.68). Eileen Coparropa   Panama 57.60 GR Deborah Figueroa   Cuba 58.47 Erin Volcán   Venezuela 58.81 200 freestyle Carolyn Adel   Suriname 2:03.22 NR Janelle Atkinson   Jamaica 2:05.97 Erin Volcán   Venezuela 2:07.41 400 freestyle Carolyn Adel   Suriname 4:19.03 NR Janelle Atkinson   Jamaica 4:20.99 Lucía Jiménez   Guatemala 4:31.09 800 freestyle Carolyn Adel   Suriname 8:52.57 GR, NR Janelle Atkinson   Jamaica 8:53.46 Irama Villareal   Mexico 9:08.06 100 backstroke Carolyn Adel   Suriname 1:04.93 NR Ana María González   Cuba 1:05.04 Tessa Solomon   Netherlands Antilles 1:07.55 200 backstroke Ana María González   Cuba 2:19.66 Tania Galindo   Mexico 2:24.97 Irama Villareal   Mexico 2:24.99 100 breaststroke Kenia Puertas   Venezuela 1:12.19 GR Imaday Nunez   Cuba 1:13.79 Isabel Ceballos   Colombia 1:14.33 200 breastroke Adriana Marmolejo   Mexico 2:37.12 GR Kenia Puertas   Venezuela 2:37.94 Imaday Nunez   Cuba 2:38.95 100 butterfly Siobhan Cropper   Trinidad & Tobago 1:03.01 GR Melissa Mata   Costa Rica 1:03.56 Paola Espana   Mexico 1:03.78 200 butterfly Melissa Mata   Costa Rica 2:16.89 GR Carolyn Adel   Suriname 2:18.27 NR Paola Espana   Mexico 2:18.73 200 I.M. Carolyn Adel   Suriname 2:19.31 GR, NR Sonia Alvarez   Puerto Rico 2:23.64 Isabel Ceballos   Colombia 2:28.56 400 I.M. Carolyn Adel   Suriname 4:52.42 GR, NR Sonia Alvarez   Puerto Rico 5:01.38 Irma Villareal   Mexico 5:02.59 4x100  free relay   Francheska Salib,   Lysandra Álvarez,   Vanessa García,   Solimar Mojica 4:00.20   Lauren Volcán,   Jenny Fuentes,   Daniela Aponte,   Erin Volcán 4:02.98   Catalina Dangond,   Ana Uribe,   Gloria Díaz,   María A. Ortiz 4:07.79 4x200  free relay   Solimar Mojica,   Lysandra Álvarez,   Gretchen Gotay,   Sonia Álvarez 8:40.26   Lauren Volcán,   Daniela Aponte,   Jenny Fuentes,   Erin Volcán 8:46.46   Ana Uribe,   Gloria Díaz,   Isabel Ceballos,   Catalina Dangond 8:54.41 4x100  medley relayVenezuela originally finished second in the women's 4x100 Medley Relay at 4:27.84; however, the relay included Tahyani Villarroel who tested positive for a prohibited substance. The relay results was therefore nullified, and places adjusted.   Ana M. González,   Imaday Núñez,   Mikeila Torres,   Déborah Figueroa 4:23.90 GR   Carolina Douglas,   Isabel Ceballos,   Andrea Duarte,   Catalina Dangond 4:29.23   Elaine López,   Francheska Salib,   Sonia Álvarez,   Vanessa García 4:36.18

Medal standings

References The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games, by Enrique Montesinos. Published by CACSO in 2009; retrieved 2012–04.