Inline speed skating world championships 1998

The world championships were in Spanish Pamplona discharged. The track competitions took place from August 28 to 31, 1998 and the street competitions from September 3 to 6, 1998.

The most successful participants were Theresa Cliff with six gold medals in the women and Chad Hedrick with seven gold medals in the men.

Women

distance	gold	silver	bronze
train
300 m individual sprint	Argentina Andrea González	Spain Eva Lizarraga	Italy Valentina Belloni
500 m sprint	Italy Nicoletta Gallessi	United States Julie Brandt	Argentina Andrea González
1500 m sprint	Italy Nicoletta Gallessi	United States Julie Brandt	Argentina Andrea González
5000 m points	United States Theresa Cliff	Italy Simona Vesprini	Australia Debra Beveridge
10000 m points out.	United States Theresa Cliff	United States Vicci King	Spain Sheila Herrero
15,000 m elimination	United States Theresa Cliff	Australia Debra Beveridge	Spain Sheila Herrero
5000 m relay	United States United States Julie Brandt Theresa Cliff Vicci King	Italy Italy Nicoletta Gallessi Adelia Marra Simona Vesprini	Taiwan Taiwan Ling Liu Ya-Wen Chen Shin-Yu Hou
Street
300 m individual sprint	Argentina Andrea González	Italy Adelia Marra	United States Gypsy Tidwell
500 m sprint	United States Gypsy Tidwell	Italy Adelia Marra	Argentina Andrea González
1500 m sprint	Argentina Andrea González	Italy Adelia Marra	Taiwan Ling Liu
3000 m mass start	United States Theresa Cliff	Italy Simona Vesprini	Colombia Erika Rueda
5000 m points	Spain Sheila Herrero	United States Theresa Cliff	Argentina Andréa Haritchelhar
10000 m points out.	United States Theresa Cliff	Italy Adelia Marra	Argentina Andréa Haritchelhar
15,000 m elimination	United States Julie Brandt	United States Theresa Cliff	Argentina Andréa Haritchelhar
Long haul
21097.5 m half marathon	Italy Adelia Marra	United States Julie Brandt	Argentina Andrea González

Men

distance	gold	silver	bronze
train
300 m individual sprint	United States Keith Turner	Italy Alessandro Cantarella	United States Chad Hedrick
500 m sprint	United States Keith Turner	United States Chad Hedrick	Australia Anthony Dodd
1500 m sprint	United States Chad Hedrick	United States Derek Downing	Italy Ippolito Sanfratello
10000 m points	United States Chad Hedrick	Italy Massimiliano Presti	Colombia Jorge Botero
15000 m points out.	United States Chad Hedrick	Italy Massimiliano Presti	France Arnaud Gicquel
20000 m elimination	United States Chad Hedrick	Colombia Jorge Botero	Australia Michael Byrne
10000 m relay	United States United States Derek Downing Chad Hedrick Keith Turner	Italy Italy Fabio Marangoni Luca Presti Massimiliano Presti	France France Arnaud Gicquel Pascal Briand Johan Langenberg
Street
300 m individual sprint	Italy Gregorio Duggento	United States Keith Turner	Italy Alessandro Cantarella
500 m sprint	United States Keith Turner	Colombia Diego Rosero	Italy Alessandro Cantarella
1500 m sprint	United States Chad Hedrick	Colombia Jorge Botero	France Pascal Briand
10000 m points	France Arnaud Gicquel	Colombia Jorge Botero	United States Chad Hedrick
15000 m points out.	United States Chad Hedrick	France Arnaud Gicquel	Italy Massimiliano Presti
20000 m elimination	Colombia Jorge Botero	Italy Massimiliano Presti	France Arnaud Gicquel
Long haul
42195 m marathon	Argentina Martin Escobar	United States Chad Hedrick	Colombia Jorge Botero

Medal table

space	country
1.	United States United States	18th	10	3	31
2.	Italy Italy	4th	12	5	21st
3.	Argentina Argentina	4th	0	7th	11
4th	Colombia Colombia	1	4th	3	8th
5.	France France	1	1	4th	6th
6th	Spain Spain	1	1	2	4th
7th	Australia Australia	0	1	3	4th
8th.	Taiwan Taiwan	0	0	2	2

Web links

Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports - FIRS: www.rollersports.org