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

Women's 4×100 metre medley relay at the 1998 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

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)

References

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