Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

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 1998 FINA Women's World Water Polo Championship was the fourth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from January 8 to January 16, 1998 and incorporated in the 1998 World Aquatics Championships, held in Perth, Australia.

Teams

Group A  Australia  Brazil  Canada  New Zealand  Russia  United States

Group B  Greece  Hungary  Italy  Kazakhstan  Netherlands  Spain

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Canada	8	5	4	0	1	34	25	+9
2.	Russia	7	5	3	1	1	49	28	+21
3.	Australia	7	5	3	1	1	50	28	+22
4.	United States	5	5	2	1	2	36	31	+5
5.	Brazil	3	5	1	1	3	29	44	–15
6.	New Zealand	0	5	0	0	5	27	69	–42

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	10	5	5	0	0	49	16	+33
2.	Hungary	8	5	4	0	1	48	30	+18
3.	Greece	6	5	3	0	2	32	31	+1
4.	Italy	4	5	2	0	3	48	33	+15
5.	Spain	2	5	1	0	4	15	35	–20
6.	Kazakhstan	0	5	0	0	5	19	66	–47

Quarter finals

• Wednesday January 14, 1998

Hungary	5 – 8	Australia
Canada	9 – 12	Italy
Netherlands	9 – 5	United States
Russia	8 – 6	Greece

Semi finals

• Thursday January 15, 1998

Italy	10 – 9	Australia
Netherlands	7 – 5	Russia

Finals

Placing Matches

• Thursday January 15, 1998 — 11th place

New Zealand	9 – 7	Kazakhstan

• Thursday January 15, 1998 — 9th place

Spain	8 – 4	Brazil

• Friday January 16, 1998 — 7th place

Hungary	10 – 7	United States

• Friday January 16, 1998 — 5th place

Greece	10 – 9	Canada

Bronze medal match

• Friday January 16, 1998

Australia	8 – 5	Russia

Final

• Friday January 16, 1998

Italy	7 – 6	Netherlands

Final ranking

RANK TEAM  Italy  Netherlands  Australia 4.  Russia 5.  Greece 6.  Canada 7.  Hungary 8.  United States 9.  Spain 10.  Brazil 11.  New Zealand 12.  Kazakhstan

1998 FINA Women's World Champion  Italy First title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy [1] Carmela Alluci Alexandra Araujo Cristina Consoli Francesca Conti Antonella Di Giacinto Eleonora Gay Melania Grego Stefania Larucci Giusi Malato Martina Micelli Maddalena Musumeci Monica Vaillant Milena Virzi	Netherlands Karla van der Boon Carla van Usen Ellen Bast Gillian van den Berg Daniëlle de Bruijn Edmée Hiemstra Karin Kuipers Ingrid Leijendekker Petra Meerdink Carla Quint Sandra Scherrenburg Mariëlle Schothans Marjan op den Velde	Australia

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player

• ???

• Best Goalkeeper

• ???

• Topscorer

• Karin Kuipers – Netherlands

References

1. "HistoFINA, Volume III: Medallists & Statistics, Women's Water Polo, Before 2008 Season" (PDF). FINA.org (2007/2008 ed.). 2007. Retrieved 2015-07-07.

• Results
• HistoFINA Volume VIII (Edition 2004)