The swimming competition at the 1998 Goodwill Games was held in New York City, New York, USA from 28 July to 2 August.

The format is a team competition.The men's teams are the United States, China, Germany and a World All-Star team and the women's teams are the United States, Russia, Germany and a World All-Star team.

Each men and women’s team competes in a round-robin, dual meet format of 14 events for a total of three dual meets per team. Team accumulates points based upon placement of its entries. Individual event medals are also awarded based upon the overall fastest times in all the competition.^[1]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Fernando Scherer  Brazil	22.18 (SA)	Alexander Popov  Russia	22.27	Lorenzo Vismara  Italy	22.46
100 m freestyle	Alexander Popov  Russia	48.86 (GR)	Fernando Scherer  Brazil	48.91	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	49.61
200 m freestyle	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	1:47.34 (GR)	Josh Davis  United States	1:48.73	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	1:49.35
400 m freestyle	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	3:52.98	Erik Vendt  United States	3:52.99	Ryk Neethling  South Africa	3:54.61
800 m freestyle	Ryk Neethling  South Africa	8:01.01	Luiz Lima  Brazil	8:01.58	Erik Vendt  United States	8:01.66
1500 m not held
100 m backstroke	Stev Theloke  Germany	54.43 (GR)	Lenny Krayzelburg  United States	55.14	Rodolfo Falcón  Cuba	55.22
200 m backstroke	Lenny Krayzelburg  United States	1:58.17 (GR)	Brad Bridgewater  United States	1:59.81	Vladimir Selkov  Russia	2:00.11
100 m butterfly	Denys Sylantyev  Ukraine	52.52 (GR)	Vladislav Kulikov  Russia	53.17	Franck Esposito  France	53.60
200 m butterfly	Denys Sylantyev  Ukraine	1:56.16 (GR)	Franck Esposito  France	1:57.55	Denis Pankratov  Russia	1:58.49
100 m breaststroke	Kurt Grote  United States	1:01.76 (GR)	Jens Kruppa  Germany	1:01.79	Patrick Fowler  United States	1:02.02
200 m breaststroke	Kurt Grote  United States	2:13.16	Pavel Anokhin  Russia	2:14.31	Andrei Ivanov  Russia	2:14.43
200 m individual medley	Curtis Myden  Canada	2:00.38 (GR)	Ron Karnaugh  United States	2:01.90	Jirka Letzin  Germany	2:03.20
400 m IM not held
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	All-Stars Fernando Scherer (48.69)SA Pieter van den Hoogenband Ricardo Busquets Lorenzo Vismara	3:17.64	Russia Roman Yegorov Alexander Popov Denis Pimankov Sergey Ashihmin	3:17.99	Germany Aimo Heilmann Stefan Herbst Alexander Luederitz Michael Kiedel	3:21.48
4 × 100 m medley relay	Russia Vladimir Selkov Andrey Korneyev Vladislav Kulikov Alexander Popov	3:38.86 (GR)	United States Lenny Krayzelburg Kurt Grote Bryan Jones Dan Phillips	3:39.46	All-Stars Emanuele Merisi Domenico Fioravanti Denys Sylantyev Francisco Sánchez	3:40.54

Women's events

References

• 1998 Goodwill Games Swimming Results