Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km
# Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km

The Men's 5K race at the 8th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on January 6, 1998, in the ocean off Perth, Western Australia.

## Results

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Aleksey Akatyev | Russia | 55:18.6 |
| 2 | Ky Hurst | Australia | 55:24.9 |
| 3 | Luca Baldini | Italy | 55:37.4 |
| 4 | Yevgeny Bezruchenko | Russia | 55:41.4 |
| 5 | David Meca | Spain | 55:42.7 |
| 6 | Fabio Venturini | Italy | 55:54.7 |
| 7 | Igor Majcen | Slovenia | 55:55.9 |
| 8 | John Flanagan | USA | 55:57.3 |
| 9 | Carl Gordon | New Zealand | 56:06.6 |
| 10 | Dave Bates | Australia | 56:08.3 |
| 11 | Serghei Mariniuc | Moldova | 56:09.5 |
| 12 | Sebastian Wiese | Germany | 56:22.5 |
| 13 | Stephane Lecat | France | 56:37.0 |
| 13 | Christof Wandratsch | Germany | 56:37.0 |
| 15 | Austin Ramirez | USA | 56:51.4 |
| 16 | Nace Majcen | Slovenia | 57:01.1 |
| 17 | Alexandre Angelotti | Brazil | 57:25.7 |
| 18 | Gareth Fowler | South Africa | 58:32.2 |
| 19 | Manuel Colmenares | Venezuela | 58:33.6 |
| 20 | Ryan Coom | New Zealand | 58:36.0 |
| 21 | Simon Chocron | Venezuela | 58:50.8 |
| 22 | Alberto Morejón | Cuba | 1:02:12.2 |
| 23 | Trpimir Kutle | Croatia | 1:02:13.3 |
| 24 | Takashi Sugisawa | Japan | 1:02:15.5 |
| 25 | Norbert Csendes | Hungary | 1:02:49.5 |
| 26 | Anse Henry | Antigua and Barbuda | 1:39:49.2 |
