Posted by Editrice on 9/17/98.
| Juniors Men/Juniors Hommes- seeding run | |||
| seed | name/nom | nationality/nationalitÈ | time/temps |
| 1 | BAREL Fabien | FRA | 4:54.52 |
| 2 | SERY Jacky | FRA | 4:55.94 |
| 3 | RANDO Jarrod | AUS | 4:56.60 |
| 4 | BERCHTOLD Markolf | BRA | 5:00.89 |
| 5 | HOUSEMAN Gary | USA | 5:06.56 |
| 6 | DELDYCKE Mickael | FRA | 5:06.96 |
| 7 | PATTERSON Karl | NZL | 5:07.10 |
| 8 | WADDELL John | AUS | 5:08.12 |
| 9 | RENNIE Nathan | AUS | 5:09.33 |
| 10 | VAGNER Adam | CZE | 5:11.52 |
| 11 | CHEETHAM Jon | GBR | 5:11.69 |
| 12 | PEJRIL Tony | CAN | 5:12.59 |
| 13 | HEINIK Petr | CZE | 5:13.15 |
| 14 | MINNAAR Greg | RSA | 5:14.09 |
| 15 | GARDENER Travis | USA | 5:17.33 |
| 16 | LEE Kris | GBR | 5:17.40 |
| 17 | CINGOLANI Pablo | ARG | 5:18.41 |
| 18 | CAMERON Ashley | NZL | 5:18.89 |
| 19 | ADAMS Dustin | CAN | 5:18.98 |
| 20 | NELSON Tim | NZL | 5:20.19 |
| 21 | WHITE Ryan | USA | 5:21.21 |
| 22 | ROY Vincent | CAN | 5:21.54 |
| 23 | O'BRYAN Tim | USA | 5:22.36 |
| 24 | BRON Mickael | SUI | 5:22.62 |
| 25 | BELANGER Eric | CAN | 5:26.49 |
| 26 | SCHLIFSKE Gino | GER | 5:26.55 |
| 27 | POLC Filip | SVK | 5:26.75 |
| 28 | THOLEN Gertje | NED | 5:28.88 |
| 29 | ROJO Cesar | ESP | 5:29.34 |
| 30 | REED Glen | NZL | 5:29.88 |
| 31 | HEINIK Pavel | CZE | 5:32.25 |
| 32 | KUDELLA Stefan | GER | 5:32.33 |
| 33 | B–ELER Markus | SUI | 5:33.29 |
| 34 | ADAMS Nathan | USA | 5:33.52 |
| 35 | SICHERT Michael | GER | 5:33.96 |
| 36 | TAYLOR Jay | AUS | 5:36.06 |
| 37 | WHITSELL Jesse | USA | 5:36.37 |
| 38 | PECHO Lubos | SVK | 5:40.59 |
| 39 | CUNNINGTON Robert | RSA | 5:43.04 |
| 40 | WEISS Caue | BRA | 5:44.01 |
| 41 | SCHWANDER Simon | SUI | 5:45.44 |
| 42 | THOMPSON Tyler | USA | 5:45.55 |
| 43 | B–TTIKER Lukas | SUI | 5:46.32 |
| 44 | ANDRADA Alberto | ARG | 5:47.34 |
| 45 | LINHARES Luiz | BRA | 5:49.51 |
| 46 | MCLEAN Peter | CAN | 5:57.64 |
| 47 | SWIEL Justin | RSA | 5:58.55 |
| 48 | PAROLIN Franck | FRA | 5:58.58 |
| 49 | PODBEVSEK Rok | SLO | 6:00.00 |
| 50 | MARTIN Gary | RSA | 6:04.55 |
| 51 | WADA Ryohei | ECU | 6:10.74 |
| 52 | CHANG Shih-Min | TPE | 6:19.97 |
| 53 | SPALDING David | GUA | 6:22.87 |
| 54 | SMIT Dricus | RSA | 6:23.61 |
| 55 | MERMOUD Damien | SUI | 7:06.45 |
| 56 | LOPEZ Michael | COL | 7:53.21 |
| 57 | INABINET David | AUS | 8:24.84 |
| 58 | COLEMAN Tim | CAN | 13:29.0 |
| 59 | MUNERA Santiago | COL | 18:28.4 |
| 60 | GIRON Edgar | GUA | |
| ECHEVARRIA Javier | ESP | DNS | |