Swimming World Championships 1998 at Perth (aus) Women: 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay January 14: Final: 1. USA (Lindsey Farella, Amy van Dyken, B.J. Bedford, Jenny Thompson) 3:42.11 2. Germany (Sandra Völker, Franziska van Almsick, Simone Osygus, Katrin Meissner) 3:43.11 3. Australia (Sarah Ryan, Rebecca Creedy, Susie O'Neill, Angie Kennedy) 3:43.71 4. Sweden (Malin Svahnström, Therese Alshammar, Louise Jöhncke, Josefin Lillhage) 3:44.28 5. Netherlands (Inge de Bruijn, Angela Postma, Manon Masseurs, Wilma van Hofwegen) 3:44.64 6. Canada (Laura Nicholls, Nicole Davey, Shannon Shakespeare, Marianne Limpert) 3:44.90 7. Great Britain (Sue Rolph, Claire Huddart, Melanie Marshall, Karen Pickering) 3:45.30 8. China (Shan Ying, Le Jingyi, Sun Guiling, Zhu Yingwen) 3:47.39