title: Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
text: # Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
  
  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, Western 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 Ioana 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 Ioana 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 |
  