Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 1998 FINA World Championships
Date	14 January 1998
Winning time	3 minutes 42.11 seconds
Medalists
Lindsey Farella Amy Van Dyken Barbara Bedford Jenny Thompson    United States   Sandra Völker Franziska van Almsick Simone Osygus Katrin Meissner    Germany   Sarah Ryan Rebecca Creedy Susie O'Neill Angela Kennedy    Australia

The final and the qualifying heats of the women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Wednesday 14 January 1998 in Perth, Australia.

Final

Rank	Team	Time
	United States Lindsey Farella Amy Van Dyken Barbara Bedford Jenny Thompson	3:42.11 56.61 54.94 56.22 54.14
	Germany Sandra Völker Franziska van Almsick Simone Osygus Katrin Meissner	3:43.11 55.68 55.95 56.58 54.90
	Australia Sarah Ryan Rebecca Creedy Susie O'Neill Angela Kennedy	3:43.71 56.24 55.80 55.40 56.27
4	Sweden Malin Svahnström Therese Alshammar Louise Jöhncke Josefin Lillhage	3:44.28 56.83 55.92 55.50 56.03
5	Netherlands Inge de Bruijn Angela Postma Manon Masseurs Wilma van Hofwegen	3:44.64 55.85 56.85 56.38 55.56
6	Canada Laura Nicholls Nicole Davey Shannon Shakespeare Marianne Limpert	3:44.90 56.49 56.64 55.54 56.23
7	Great Britain Sue Rolph Claire Huddart Melanie Marshall Karen Pickering	3:45.30 56.07 56.72 57.13 55.38
8	China Shan Ying Le Jingyi Sun Guling Zhu Yingwen	3:47.39 56.56 57.59 56.16 57.08

Qualifying heats

Heat 1

Rank	Team	Time
1	United States Catherine Fox Lindsey Farella Melanie Valerio Barbara Bedford	3:44.89
2	Australia Sarah Ryan Rebecca Creedy Angela Kennedy Kate Godfrey	3:45.80
3	Germany Katrin Meissner Antje Buschschulte Silvia Szalai Franziska van Almsick	3:45.84
4	Great Britain Sue Rolph Claire Huddart Melanie Marshall Karen Pickering	3:46.27
5	Denmark Sophia Skou Mette Jacobsen Mia Muusfeldt Berit Puggaard	3:48.19
6	Belgium Liesbet Dreesen Tine Bossuyt Sofie Wolfs Fabienne Dufour	3:49.69
7	Brazil Tatiana Lemos Raquel Takaya Monique Ferreira Lucia Santos	3:59.48

Heat 2

Rank	Team	Time
1	Canada Laura Nicholls Nicole Davey Shannon Shakespeare Marianne Limpert	3:45.83
2	Sweden Johanna Sjöberg Therese Alshammar Malin Svahnström Josefin Lillhage	3:46.08
3	China Sun Guling Zhu Yingwen Le Jingyi Shan Ying	3:47.05
4	Netherlands Wilma van Hofwegen Angela Postma Suze Valen Manon Masseurs	3:47.37
5	Italy Luisa Striani Karina Vanni Viviana Susin Cecilia Vianini	3:49.02
6	Russia Svetlana Leshukova Elena Nazemnova Tatyana Litovchenko Inna Yaytskaya	3:49.28
7	Chinese Taipei Lin Meng-Chieh Chiang Tzu-Ying Lin Chi-Chan Tsai Shu-Min	4:02.05

See also

• 1996 Women's Olympic Games 4x100m Freestyle (Atlanta)
• 1997 Women's World Championships (SC) 4x100m Freestyle (Gothenburg)
• 1997 Women's European Championships (LC) 4x100m Freestyle (Seville)
• 2000 Women's Olympic Games 4x100m Freestyle (Sydney)

References

• "8th FINA World Swimming Championships". SwimNews.com. 
• "1998 FINA World Championships (LCM)". USA Swimming.