Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4×200 metre freestyle relay1998 FINA World Championships
Date	17 January 1998
Winning time	8 minutes 01.46 seconds
Medalists
Franziska van Almsick Dagmar Hase Silvia Szalai Kerstin Kielgass   Germany   Cristina Teuscher Lindsay Benko Brooke Bennett Jenny Thompson   United States   Julia Greville Anna Windsor Susie O'Neill Petria Thomas   Australia

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 4×200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Saturday 17 January 1998 in Perth, Australia.

Final

Rank	Team	Time
	Germany Franziska van Almsick Dagmar Hase Silvia Szalai Kerstin Kielgass	8:01.46 2:01.28 2:00.16 2:00.42 1:59.60
	United States Cristina Teuscher Lindsay Benko Brooke Bennett Jenny Thompson	8:02.88 2:00.92 2:00.94 2:01.17 1:59.85
	Australia Julia Greville Anna Windsor Susie O'Neill Petria Thomas	8:04.19 2:00.92 2:03.23 1:58.80 2:01.24
4	Canada Joanne Malar Shannon Shakespeare Jessica Deglau Laura Nicholls	8:05.59 2:02.44 2:01.40 2:00.65 2:01.10
5	Sweden Louise Jöhncke Josefin Lillhage Malin Svahnström Therese Alshammar	8:07.60 2:01.51 2:01.52 1:59.84 2:04.73
6	Great Britain Claire Huddart Victoria Horner Jessica Craig Karen Pickering	8:08.14 2:02.71 2:01.33 2:03.54 2:00.56
7	Romania Camelia Potec Simona Păduraru Lorena Diaconescu Liliana Dobrescu	8:10.06 2:02.46 2:03.29 2:01.95 2:02.36
8	Netherlands Carla Geurts Manon Masseurs Wilma van Hofwegen Kirsten Vlieghuis	8:11.63 2:03.19 2:03.09 2:02.95 2:02.40

Qualifying heats

Heat 1

Rank	Team	Time
1	United States Trina Jackson Ashley Whitney Lindsay Benko Cristina Teuscher	8:07.12 2:01.87 2:01.49 2:00.65 2:03.11
2	Canada Laura Nicholls Joanne Malar Karine Chevrier Shannon Shakespeare	8:11.98 2:02.67 2:02.17 2:04.31 2:02.83
3	Sweden Malin Svahnström Malin Nilsson Josefin Lillhage Louise Jöhncke	8:13.46 2:03.46 2:04.17 2:02.10 2:03.73
4	Netherlands Carla Geurts Maartje Kouwenberg Manon Masseurs Wilma van Hofwegen	8:16.61 2:02.92 2:06.86 2:03.96 2:02.87
5	Chinese Taipei Chiang-Tzu Ying Lin-Meng Chieh Chen-Chia Cheng Yang-Hsiao Hui	9:07.86 2:14.60 2:14.61 2:21.59 2:17.06

Heat 2

Rank	Team	Time
1	Germany Silvia Szalai Antje Buschschulte Janina Götz Franziska van Almsick	8:08.38 2:02.19 2:02.20 2:02.95 2:01.04
2	Great Britain Claire Huddart Victoria Horner Jessica Craig Karen Pickering	8:09.99 2:03.42 2:02.84 2:02.31 2:01.42
3	Australia Julia Greville Petria Thomas Emma Johnson Anna Windsor	8:10.65 2:01.05 2:02.63 2:04.15 2:02.82
4	Romania Simona Păduraru Lorena Diaconescu Camelia Potec Liliana Dobrescu	8:10.65 2:05.55 2:02.30 2:03.07 2:00.73
5	Denmark Ditte Jensen Britt Raaby Berit Puggaard Mia Muusfeldt	8:17.16 2:05.15 2:04.73 2:03.08 2:04.20
6	BRAZIL Monique Ferreira Raquel Takaya Lucia Santos Tatiana Lemos	8:39.41 2:08.62 2:09.11 2:10.37 2:11.31

See also

• 1996 Women's Olympic Games 4x200m Freestyle (Atlanta)
• 1997 Women's World Championships (SC) 4x200m Freestyle (Gothenburg)
• 1997 Women's European Championships (LC) 4x200m Freestyle (Seville)
• 2000 Women's Olympic Games 4x200m Freestyle (Sydney)