title: Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Team 5 km
text: # Open water swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Team 5 km
  
  The Team results of 5 km open water swimming at the 8th FINA World Aquatics Championships are composed of total time from three swimmers per nation from the Men's single and Women's single 5K races where each gender must have at least one swimmer.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Place | Nation | Swimmers | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | USA | John Flanagan Austin Ramirez Erica Rose | 2:52:12.2 |
  | 2 | Russia | Aleksey Akatyev Yevgeny Bezruchenko Olga Guseva | 2:52:16.7 |
  | 3 | Italy | Luca Baldini Fabio Venturini Valeria Casprini | 2:52:41.6 |
  | 4 | Australia | Ky Hurst Dave Bates Bronwen Whitehead | 2:52:43.9 |
  | 5 | Germany | Sebastian Wiese Christof Wandratsch Peggy Büchse | 2:54:05.3 |
  | 6 | Slovenia | Igor Majcen Nace Majcen Maša Jamnik | 2:56:49.5 |
  | 7 | New Zealand | Carl Gordon Ryan Coom Angela Collett | 2:57:37.4 |
  