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

Women's 4×100 metre medley relay1998 FINA World Championships
Date	16 January 1998
Winning time	4 minutes 01.93 seconds
Medalists
Lea Maurer Kristy Kowal Jenny Thompson Amy Van Dyken   United States   Meredith Smith Helen Denman Petria Thomas Susie O'Neill   Australia   Mai Nakamura Masami Tanaka Ayari Aoyama Sumika Minamoto   Japan

1998 FINA World Championships Perth, Australia
Diving
1 m		men		women
3 m		men		women
10 m		men		women
Open water swimming
5 km		men		women
25 km		men		women
Team		5 km		25 km
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women
Synchronised swimming
Solo				women
Duet				women
Team				women
Water polo
Team		men		women

The final and the qualifying heats of the women's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Friday 16 January 1998 in Perth, Australia.

Final

Rank	Team	Time
	United States Lea Maurer Kristy Kowal Jenny Thompson Amy Van Dyken	4:01.93 1:01.91 1:07.20 57.89 54.93
	Australia Meredith Smith Helen Denman Petria Thomas Susie O'Neill	4:05.12 1:02.73 1:08.32 58.68 55.39
	Japan Mai Nakamura Masami Tanaka Ayari Aoyama Sumika Minamoto	4:06.27 1:01.83 1:10.24 59.09 55.11
4.	Germany Sandra Völker Sylvia Gerasch Katrin Jake Katrin Meissner	4:08.90 1:02.32 1:10.30 1:00.84 55.44
5.	Hungary Annamaria Kiss Ágnes Kovács Anna Nyiry Dora Jakab	4:11.41 1:05.25 1:08.29 1:01.48 56.39
6.	Netherlands Angela Postma Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Wilma van Hofwegen	4:11.73 1:05.18 1:11.53 59.66 55.36
7.	Great Britain Sarah Price Jaime King Caroline Foot Sue Rolph	4:13.33 1:04.00 1:11.22 1:01.58 56.53
—	Belgium Sofie Wolfs Brigitte Becue Fabienne Dufour Tine Bossuyt	DSQ

Qualifying heats

Heat 1

Rank	Team	Time
1	Germany Sandra Völker Anne Poleska Silvia Szalai Katrin Meissner	4:12.15 1:02.72 1:11.09 1:01.76 56.58
2	Belgium Sofie Wolfs Brigitte Becue Fabienne Dufour Tine Bossuyt	4:12.74 1:04.31 1:09.81 1:02.34 56.28
3	Poland Izabela Burczyk Dagmara Ajnenkiel Anna Uryniuk Alicja Pęczak	4:13.99 1:03.73 1:10.44 1:01.78 58.04
4	Russia Yuliya Fomenko Lyudmila Mamontova Elena Nazemnova Tatyana Litovchenko	4:18.84 1:04.59 1:14.12 1:03.33 56.80
—	Canada Erin Gammel Lauren van Oosten Jessica Amey Shannon Shakespeare	DSQ 1:03.92 1:10.36 1:02.48 55.99
—	China	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Team	Time
1	United States Beth Botsford Jenna Street Misty Hyman Barbara Bedford	4:07.99 1:02.82 1:10.17 59.39 55.61
2	Australia Meredith Smith Samantha Riley Angela Kennedy Sarah Ryan	4:08.64 1:04.18 1:08.55 1:00.49 55.42
3	Japan Mai Nakamura Masami Tanaka Ayari Aoyama Sumika Minamoto	4:09.10 1:01.83 1:11.73 59.55 55.99
4	Netherlands Suze Valen Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Wilma van Hofwegen	4:12.23 1:05.26 1:11.08 1:00.47 55.42
5	Hungary Annamaria Kiss Ágnes Kovács Anna Nyiry Dora Jakab	4:12.39 1:05.05 1:08.83 1:01.93 56.58
6	Great Britain Sarah Price Jaime King Caroline Foot Karen Pickering	4:13.39 1:03.46 1:11.49 1:02.09 56.35
7	Chinese Taipei Chia-Hsien Kuan Ya-Han Liao I-Ju Huang Meng-Chieh Lin	4:35.32 1:10.48 1:18.62 1:05.38 1:00.84

See also

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