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World Championships - Results Men 1978
West Germany - West-Berlin - 28 August 1978
Men's 200 m freestyle - 20 August 1978
| 1 |  Bill Forrester (USA) | 1:51.02 |
| 2 | Rowdy Gaines (USA) | 1:51.10 |
| 3 |  Sergey Kopliakov (URS) | 1:51.33 |
| 4 |  Peter Szmidt (CAN) | 1:51.94 |
| 5 |  Marcello Guarducci (ITA) | 1:52.82 |
| 6 |  Andrey Krylov (RUS) | 1:53.25 |
| 7 |  Ronald Mckeon (AUS) | 1:53.26 |
| 8 | Andreas Schmidt (FDR) | 1:53.48 |
Men's 100 m backstroke - 20 August 1978
| 1 | Bob Jackson (USA) | 56.36 |
| 2 | Peter Rocca (USA) | 56.69 |
| 3 |  Romulo Arantes (BRA) | 58.01 |
| 4 | Glenn Patching (AUS) | 58.44 |
| 5 |  Fred Eefting (NED) | 59.10 |
| 6 |  Conrado Porta (ARG) | 59.13 |
Men's 100 m breaststroke - 20 August 1978
| 1 | Walter Kusch (FDR) | 1:03.56 |
| 2 | Graham Smith (CAN) | 1:03.60 |
| 3 | Gerald Mörken (FDR) | 1:03.62 |
| 4 |  Duncan Goodhew (GBR) | 1:03.77 |
| 5 | Nick Nevid (USA) | 1:03.84 |
| 6 |  Shigehiro Takahashi (JPN) | 1:03.94 |
| 7 | Steve Lundquist (USA) | 1:04.11 |
| 8 |  Falk Becker (DDR) | 1:05.69 |
Men's 400 m medley - 22 August 1978
| 1 | Jesus Vassallo (USA) | 4:20.05 |
| 2 |  Sergey Sr Fesenko (UKR) | 4:22.29 |
| 3 |  András Hargitay (HUN) | 4:27.04 |
| 4 | Aleksandr Sidorenko (URS) | 4:27.78 |
| 5 | Sós Csaba (HUN) | 4:28.95 |
| 6 | Scot Matsuda (USA) | 4:29.11 |
| 7 | Simon Gray (GBR) | 4:29.95 |
| 8 | Bill Sawchuk (CAN) | 4:33.25 |
Men's 4x100 m freestyle - 22 August 1978
| 1 | United States (Jack Babashoff, Rowdy Gaines, Jim Montgomery, David Mccagg) | 3:19.74 |
| 2 | West Germany (Andreas Schmidt, Ulrich Temps, Peter Knust, Klaus Steinbach) | 3:26.65 |
| 3 |  Sweden (Pelle Holmertz, Dan Larsson, Per-Ola Quist, Per-alvar Magnusson) | 3:26.95 |
| 4 | Canada (Bill Sawchuk, Graham Smith, Gary Macdonald, Peter Szmidt) | 3:27.14 |
| 5 | Italy (Marcello Guarducci, Raffaele Franceschi, Paolo Sinigaglia, Paolo Revelli) | 3:28.90 |
| 6 | Great Britain (Martin Smith, Mark Taylor, Richard Burrell, David Dunne) | 3:28.93 |
| 7 | Australia (Mark Morgan, Ronald Mckeon, Graeme Brewer, Glenn Patching) | 3:29.37 |
| 8 | East Germany (Roger Pyttel, Günter Schröder, Lutz Wanja) | 3:30.04 |
Men's 400 m freestyle - 23 August 1978
| 1 | Vladimir Salnikov (URS) | 3:51.94 |
| 2 | Jeff Float (USA) | 3:53.42 |
| 3 | Bill Forrester (USA) | 3:53.97 |
| 4 | Sergey Rusin (URS) | 3:55.46 |
| 5 | Sándor Nagy (HUN) | 3:56.29 |
| 6 | Peter Szmidt (CAN) | 3:56.48 |
| 7 | Max Metzker (AUS) | 3:56.64 |
| 8 |  Borut Petric (YUG) | 3:56.85 |
Men's 200 m backstroke - 23 August 1978
| 1 | Jesus Vassallo (USA) | 2:02.16 |
| 2 |  Gary Hurring (NZL) | 2:03.71 |
| 3 | Zoltán Verrasztó (HUN) | 2:03.90 |
| 4 | Tim Shaw (USA) | 2:04.33 |
| 5 | Fred Eefting (NED) | 2:05.01 |
| 6 | Sándor Wladár (HUN) | 2:07.32 |
| 7 | Conrado Porta (ARG) | 2:07.43 |
Men's 200 m breaststroke - 23 August 1978
| 1 | Nick Nevid (USA) | 2:18.37 |
| 2 | Arsens Miskarovs (URS) | 2:18.42 |
| 3 | Walter Kusch (FDR) | 2:20.16 |
| 4 | Duncan Goodhew (GBR) | 2:20.49 |
| 5 | Robertas Zulpa (URS) | 2:20.53 |
| 6 | Albán Vermes (HUN) | 2:20.81 |
| 7 | Graham Smith (CAN) | 2:20.91 |
| 8 | Jeff Freeman (USA) | 2:22.13 |
Men's 200 m butterfly - 23 August 1978
| 1 | Mike Bruner (USA) | 1:59.38 |
| 2 | Steven Gregg (USA) | 1:59.80 |
| 3 | Roger Pyttel (DDR) | 2:01.33 |
| 4 | Pär Arvidsson (SWE) | 2:01.61 |
| 5 | George Nagy (CAN) | 2:01.93 |
| 6 | Michael Kraus (FDR) | 2:01.95 |
| 7 | Mikhail Gorelik (URS) | 2:01.96 |
| 8 | Phil Hubble (GBR) | 2:02.66 |
Men's 200 m medley - 24 August 1978
| 1 | Graham Smith (CAN) | 2:03.65 |
| 2 | Jesus Vassallo (USA) | 2:04.99 |
| 3 | Aleksandr Sidorenko (URS) | 2:05.29 |
| 4 | Steve Lundquist (USA) | 2:05.80 |
| 5 | Bill Sawchuk (CAN) | 2:06.65 |
| 6 | Sergey Sr Fesenko (UKR) | 2:06.96 |
| 7 |  Arne Borgstrøm (NOR) | 2:08.18 |
| 8 |  Miloslav Rolko (CZE) | 2:09.26 |
Men's 4x200 m freestyle - 24 August 1978
| 1 | United States (Bruce Furniss, Bill Forrester, Bobby Hackett, Rowdy Gaines) | 7:20.82 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (Sergey Rusin, Andrey Krylov, Vladimir Salnikov, Sergey Kopliakov) | 7:28.41 |
| 3 | West Germany (Andreas Schmidt, Peter Knust, Karsten Lippmann, Frank Wennmann) | 7:33.29 |
| 4 | Sweden (Pelle Holmertz, Per-Ola Quist, Gary Andersson, Per-alvar Magnusson) | 7:33.48 |
| 5 | Italy (Paolo Revelli, Marcello Guarducci, Raffaele Franceschi, Giorgio Quadri) | 7:34.89 |
| 6 | East Germany (Roger Pyttel, Günter Schröder, Rainer Strohbach) | 7:38.53 |
| 7 |  France (Pierre Andraca, Gilles Plancon, Didier Matusic, Fabien Noël) | 7:39.87 |
| 8 | Australia (Graeme Brewer, Ronald Mckeon, Glenn Patching, Mark Morgan) | 7:39.94 |
Men's 1500 m freestyle - 26 August 1978
| 1 | Vladimir Salnikov (URS) | 15:03.99 |
| 2 | Borut Petric (YUG) | 15:20.77 |
| 3 | Bobby Hackett (USA) | 15:23.38 |
| 4 | Max Metzker (AUS) | 15:25.60 |
| 5 | Zoltán Wladár (HUN) | 15:35.87 |
| 6 | Daniel Machek (CZE) | 15:38.57 |
| 7 | Simon Gray (GBR) | 15:41.33 |
Men's 100 m butterfly - 26 August 1978
| 1 | Joe Bottom (USA) | 54.30 |
| 2 | Greg Jagenburg (USA) | 55.26 |
| 3 | Pär Arvidsson (SWE) | 55.38 |
| 4 | Roger Pyttel (DDR) | 55.40 |
| 5 | Dan Thompson (CAN) | 55.43 |
| 6 | Klaus Steinbach (FDR) | 55.90 |
| 7 | Miloslav Rolko (CZE) | 55.96 |
| 8 | Kees Vervoorn (NED) | 56.27 |
Men's 100 m freestyle - 28 August 1978
| 1 | David Mccagg (USA) | 50.24 |
| 2 | Jim Montgomery (USA) | 50.73 |
| 3 | Klaus Steinbach (FDR) | 50.79 |
| 4 | Marcello Guarducci (ITA) | 51.71 |
| 5 |  Fernando Canales (PUR) | 51.74 |
| 6 | Andreas Schmidt (FDR) | 51.78 |
| 7 | Pelle Holmertz (SWE) | 51.83 |
| 8 | Per-alvar Magnusson (SWE) | 52.36 |
Men's 4x100 m medley - 28 August 1978
| 1 | United States (David Mccagg, Joe Bottom, Nick Nevid, Bob Jackson) | 3:44.63 |
| 2 | West Germany (Andreas Schmidt, Michael Kraus, Walter Kusch, Klaus Steinbach) | 3:48.58 |
| 3 | Great Britain (Martin Smith, John Mills, Duncan Goodhew, Gary Abraham) | 3:49.06 |
| 4 | Canada (Gary Macdonald, Dan Thompson, Graham Smith, Wade Flemons) | 3:50.10 |
| 5 | East Germany (Roger Pyttel, Falk Becker, Lutz Wanja) | 3:50.15 |
| 6 | Sweden (Pelle Holmertz, Pär Arvidsson, Jan Sjöström, Michael Söderlund) | 3:50.58 |
| 7 | Soviet Union (Andrey Krylov, Yevgeny Seredin, Arsens Miskarovs, Aleksandr Sidorenko) | 3:51.18 |
| 8 | Japan (Hidenori Ishii, Shinsuke Kayama, Shigehiro Takahashi, Noriyoshi Mishina) | 3:54.84 |
