The Men's 25K race at the 8th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on January 11, 1998, in the ocean off Perth, Western Australia.

Results Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Aleksey Akatyev 5:05:42.1 2 David Meca 5:07:22.9 3 Gabriel Chaillou 5:07:52.6 4 Claudio Gargaro 5:09:48.2 5 Yury Kudinov 5:12:07.3 6 Stéphane Lecat 5:14:15.5 7 Grant Robinson 5:14:40.2 8 Fabrizio Pescatori 5:16:54.6 9 Igor Majcen 5:17:09.1 10 Nicolas Knap 5:22:35.1 11 Mark Saliba 5:27:54.1 12 Andre Wilde 5:31:38.5 13 Nathan Stooke 5:32:20.8 14 Nace Majcen 5:33.52.8 15 Liam Weseloh 5:34:53.3 16 Simon Chocron 5:38:43.3 17 Chuck Wiley 5:42:32.4 18 Paulo Torres 5:45:04.7 19 Alberto Morejon 5:46:10.8 20 Ryan Coom 5:48.03.2 21 Serghei Mariniuc 5:52:28.7 22 Trpimir Kutle 5:54:18.1 23 Robert Dinka 5:57:26.2 24 Gareth Fowler 6:05:11.0 25 Takashi Sugisawa 6:12.37.8 26 Ákos Győrffy 6:25:55.4 -- Manuel Colmenares DNF -- Christof Wandratsch DNF -- György Pál DNF -- Seif Al-Deen El-Hassan DNF -- Yasir Abdalmag Osman DNF

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